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From: Klaus Weidner <klaus@atsec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPC_SET_PERM cleanup
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:11:50 -0500
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On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:02:12PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> What about a new field in the audit records that is a bitmask, wherein
> bits are flipped on for each field being a "new" or "updated" field?
> 
> Example:
> 
> type=IPC_SET_PERM msg=audit(1146863632.117:98): new_qbytes=0 new_iuid=501
> new_igid=0 new_mode=0
> 
> becomes:
> 
> type=IPC_SET_PERM msg=audit(1146863632.117:98) new=1111: qbytes=0 iuid=501
> igid=0 mode=0

I'm not sure that's really necessary, the type=IPC_SET_PERM already tells
you that these are new values. How about simply the following:

type=IPC_SET_PERM msg=audit(1146863632.117:98): qbytes=0 iuid=501 igid=0 mode=0

-Klaus