Re: fanotify as syscalls

hch
2009-09-23T21:59:05Z

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:35:18AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> The fear is that this becomes a trojan horse (no pun intended) for more
> and more hooks and "stuff", driven by we-really-need-this-too and
> we-really-need-that-too. And once something it's in, it's harder to say no,
> under the pressure of offering a "limited solution".
> This ws the reason I threw the syscall tracing thing in, so they have a
> low level generic hook, and they cam knock themselves out in their module
> (might need a few exports, but that's about it).

Replacing idiotify with a saner interface is a good goal. I just don't
think we should take the stakes of the snake oil industry too serious in
it.