From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: allow unlimited backlog queue
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:50:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140115165011.GB23261@madcap2.tricolour.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436512.jO6G90Soyo@x2>
On 14/01/15, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 05:59:16 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > Since audit can already be disabled by "audit=0" on the kernel boot line, or
> > by the command "auditctl -e 0", it would be more useful to have the
> > audit_backlog_limit set to zero mean effectively unlimited (limited only by
> > system resources).
>
> I don't see a useful purpose to this.
That's up to you. On your side it is a documentation question. It is
already implemented in the kernel. The rationale I thought was fairly
clear. The flexibility is there. A warning would be useful.
> -Steve
- RGB
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-14 22:59 [PATCH] audit: allow unlimited backlog queue Richard Guy Briggs
2014-01-14 23:04 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-01-15 13:03 ` Steve Grubb
2014-01-15 16:46 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-01-15 16:57 ` Steve Grubb
2014-01-15 17:12 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-01-15 17:24 ` Steve Grubb
2014-01-15 17:31 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2014-01-15 1:19 ` Gao feng
2014-01-15 12:53 ` Steve Grubb
2014-01-15 16:50 ` Richard Guy Briggs [this message]
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