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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Identifying thread/process termination
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:20:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5549003.MhkbZ0Pkbq@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPErmPdDACGemKqTrUk4xKNBwnoj6FEeWbsvmk7jS0TjOyaOqg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Monday, October 5, 2020 3:07:12 PM EDT Natan Yellin wrote:
> I've been tracking all process terminations using a rule for the exit and
> exit_group syscalls. However, by looking at the audit events for exit it is
> impossible to differentiate between the death of different threads in the
> same thread group. Is there an alternative way to track this?

I don't think the audit system was ever designed to distinguish between 
threads. But there is a general need to determine the exit of a process 
rather than a thread. 

Paul, Richard, Do you have any thoughts?

-Steve

> For my use case, I would like to know when either processes or individual
> threads execute and terminate. (I'm fine tracking at either granularity.)
> Right now I can track the creation properly using fork/clone/etc but for
> termination I receive multiple exit events with identical information that
> doesn't let me know which thread died.




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  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-06 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-05 19:07 Identifying thread/process termination Natan Yellin
2020-10-06 20:20 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2020-10-08  1:27   ` Paul Moore
2020-10-08  7:59     ` Natan Yellin
2020-10-09  1:12       ` Paul Moore
2020-10-08 12:49     ` Richard Guy Briggs
2020-10-08 15:33     ` Lenny Bruzenak
2020-11-16  6:41       ` L. A. Walsh
2020-11-16 13:43         ` Paul Moore
2020-11-17 15:22           ` L A Walsh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-20 19:43 L. A. Walsh
2020-11-24 15:43 ` Lenny Bruzenak
2020-11-20 19:45 L. A. Walsh

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