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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Performance of libauparse
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:46:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810011446.26752.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E3A08C.2030501@redhat.com>

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 12:08:44 Matthew Booth wrote:
> > Close, but not quite.  I say we can't change the kernel without complete
> > backwards compatibility.  Show me the right solution and we can get
> > there, we just can't throw away what's already there.
>
> My other mail listed 6 ways in which audit *has already broken*
> userspace through non-backwards compatibility.

Are they verified broken or just that something changed? Backwards 
compatibility was worked in wherever possible.


>The situation is still very messy, and this will continue to happen because
>the protocol has evolved organically rather than  through deliberate design,
>and was not designed for extensibility.

There was a deliberate design. Compactness and extensibility are sometimes at 
odds, though. But this is straying way away from your original post about 
performance improvements - which I would find to be topic worth talking 
about. I will not participate in any rehash of past discussions about parsing 
or representation of data.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-01 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-30 13:34 Performance of libauparse Matthew Booth
2008-09-30 18:34 ` Steve Grubb
2008-09-30 19:18 ` John Dennis
2008-09-30 22:18   ` Matthew Booth
2008-10-01 13:15   ` Eric Paris
2008-10-01 16:08     ` Matthew Booth
2008-10-01 18:46       ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2008-10-01 18:38     ` Paul Moore
2008-10-01 19:20       ` LC Bruzenak
2008-10-01 19:31         ` LC Bruzenak
2008-10-01 21:19         ` Paul Moore

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