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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: A question about auditd_reply_list and auditd_consumer_data in
	Audit.c and Auditd-event.c
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 13:27:42 -0400
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To: chuli <chul@cn.fujitsu.com>
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On Thursday 15 May 2008 11:40:55 pm chuli wrote:
> 	I have read source code in Audit-1.6.5 about auditd part. I looked up into
> functions equeue_event(),event_thread_main() in
> Auditd-event.c,get_reply(),send_audit_event() and main function in
> Auditd.c. I don't know why it must use a list (auditd_reply_list) here. 

As the code stands today, it does not need it. I keep the project's future 
development needs/goals in a TODO file at the top directory in the source 
tarball. I have a goal of making an internal queue between the listener and 
disk writing threads. What I wanted to do was get it working in audispd and 
then backport that same queue mechanism into auditd. But I wanted it to get 
tested out before pulling it into the more critical auditd code. I plan to 
add this internal queue in the 2.0 series which should start in the next 
month or two.

-Steve