Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate

Steven Rostedt
2006-03-07T10:26:20Z

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jon Masters wrote:

> On 3/7/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:31 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > As for the non-existent virus problem - it is mostly prevented
> > > by users not being administrators. And you can go further
> > > with a readonly /usr and a noexec /home.
>
> > I believe he is referring to using Linux systems to provide virus
> > scanning services for mail, NFS, SMB etc. clients, rather than to virus
> > scanning for the Linux desktop (which is indeed a non problem).
>
> Sure. I wasn't hand waving an muttering about virus problems on Linux
> desktops everywhere.
>
> Anyway. Seems a couple of us are interested in having something more
> generic at the VFS level to notify userspace about particular events
> of interest (recursively registering a watcher on every directory is
> silly). I really should go scope out some of the existing projects
> that cover this before I decide what to do. This kind of thing should
> be in mainline IMHO.
>

Hmm, this could also be very useful for change management systems and
especially backup utilities. Imagine having a daemon that records all the
changes on a filesystem, and then backs them up periodically. Could very
well be useful.

-- Steve