Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate

Helge Hafting
2006-03-06T09:31:42Z

Jon Masters wrote:

>You're right. What I want really is to be able to bind to a netlink
>socket and get told about particular file IO operations I'm interested
>in for the /whole/ of a filesystem. The same kind of thing that real
>time anti-virus/anti-spam people want to do anyway.
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Do they?
I thought all this mail processing could be done in the mailserver
and/or mail reader. Why detect spam by looking for generic file
creation when you can trivially tap into mail as it arrives?

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.

Helge Hafting