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From: Matthew Booth <mbooth@redhat.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: William Kelly <wkelly@rackspace.com>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, Bret Piatt <bret.piatt@rackspace.com>
Subject: Re: get_field_str() and interpret_field() bug with multi-word fields
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:10:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A20A60.8000605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808121713.12919.sgrubb@redhat.com>

Steve Grubb wrote:
> If somebody has a better idea/code in hand when we start the 2.0 code, I'd 
> like to consider it. The pre-requisites are it has to be backward compatible, 
> it has to handle unicode, it has to handle fields with odd characters.

I have thought for some time now that the kernel would do better to 
produce binary records. This would have many advantages, including:

* Very simple parsing
* Much faster to parse
* Faster to produce
* Much easier to specify

The production of text would then be the problem of the audit daemon. If 
the current text based nightmare were frozen, they could even live 
side-by-side.

Matt
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-12 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-12 17:49 get_field_str() and interpret_field() bug with multi-word fields Jonathan Kelly
2008-08-12 18:05 ` LC Bruzenak
2008-08-12 18:52   ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 19:02     ` LC Bruzenak
2008-08-12 18:16 ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 21:13   ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 22:10     ` Matthew Booth [this message]
2008-08-12 23:01       ` Eric Paris
2008-08-12 19:16 ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 19:58   ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 20:11     ` Eric Paris
2008-08-12 20:32       ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 21:09         ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 21:24           ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 22:37             ` John Dennis
2008-08-13  0:33         ` Klaus Heinrich Kiwi
2008-08-13 15:09           ` Eric Paris
2008-08-13 16:25             ` Klaus Heinrich Kiwi
2008-08-13 17:02               ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-13 17:30                 ` LC Bruzenak
2008-08-13 18:49                 ` Linda Knippers
2008-08-13 19:58                   ` John Dennis
2008-08-14 18:25               ` Stephen Smalley
2008-08-15 13:58                 ` Matteo Michelini
2008-08-15 14:10                   ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-15 15:27                     ` Matteo Michelini
2008-08-15 14:15                   ` Stephen Smalley
2008-08-13 16:29             ` John Dennis
2008-08-13 22:35           ` Casey Schaufler
2008-08-12 20:57       ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 21:18         ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 21:40           ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 21:53             ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 22:11               ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 22:46                 ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 22:59         ` Eric Paris
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-13 16:57 Jonathan Kelly

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