Re: fanotify as syscalls

Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-09-23T15:42:46Z

On Wednesday 23 September 2009 12:32:32 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:39:33 +0100
>
> Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> wrote:
> > Lived with it because there was no other option. We used LSM while it
> > was available for modules but then it was taken away.
>
> ... at which point you could have submitted your LSM module for
> inclusion... you'd be the first (and only?) Anti Virus vendor that
> would be in the mainline kernel.. speaking of competitive advantage,
> coming out of the box in all distributions.
>
> sadly this road hasn't been chosen....

It has, but since what we had wasn't acceptable the road was long and it
turned into fanotify. Which is not only about anti-malware (hello Christoph)
so I think this sub-thread is going off-topic.

Tvrtko