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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: david@lang.hm, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, malware-list@lists.printk.net,
	arjan@infradead.org, bunk@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu,
	tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com, hch@infradead.org,
	andi@firstfloor.org, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk,
	peterz@infradead.org, Jonathan.Press@ca.com, riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] 0/11 fanotify: fscking all notifiction and file access system (intended for antivirus scanning and file indexers)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:09:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081006150858.GA1380@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080927122031.2d4dd1b0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Hi!

> > sending a message out for every READ/WRITE seems like it will generate a 
> > LOT of messages, and very few will be ones that anyone cares about.
> 
> On read there isn't much point anyway, on write if you simply send one,
> save an event counter number and don't send another until the last one is
> cleared it all works well. When the last event is cleared if another
> event has occurred then the event counter will have changed so you know
> to send one immediately, if the app doesn't want to receive them for a
> while it can just hang onto the event for a minute or two before clearing
> it.

Actually both read and write seems useless, as both can be bypassed by
mmap...?

								Pavel 

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-26 21:07 [RFC] 0/11 fanotify: fscking all notifiction and file access system (intended for antivirus scanning and file indexers) Eric Paris
2008-09-26 21:34 ` Alan Cox
2008-09-26 21:48   ` [malware-list] " Greg KH
2008-09-26 22:03   ` Eric Paris
2008-10-02 19:24   ` Eric Paris
2008-10-02 20:48     ` Alan Cox
2008-09-27  6:05 ` david
2008-09-27 11:20   ` Alan Cox
2008-10-06 15:09     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-09-27 14:04   ` Eric Paris
     [not found]     ` <5CB739747AC639489F3E8210950C3E555C39EE@geousmail3.GEO.CORP.HCL.IN>
2008-10-07 17:36       ` [malware-list] [RFC] 0/11 fanotify: fscking all notifiction andfile access system (intended for antivirus scanning and fileindexers) Eric Paris

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