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From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
To: jonathan@jonmasters.org
Cc: Chris Ball <cjb@mrao.cam.ac.uk>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:31:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <440C0175.7040909@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35fb2e590603051704k120e0257wb39c3e3eb1cf0b49@mail.gmail.com>

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.
>
>  
>
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

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-06  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-05 21:36 [OT] inotify hack for locate Jon Masters
2006-03-05 21:42 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-05 21:50   ` Jon Masters
2006-03-06  9:23     ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-06 21:59       ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-05 21:53   ` Robin Holt
2006-03-05 22:02     ` Jon Masters
2006-03-05 21:43 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-05 23:08   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-05 23:30     ` Måns Rullgård
2006-03-06 21:53       ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-06 22:08         ` Måns Rullgård
2006-03-06 22:22           ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-08 13:56           ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-05 23:41 ` Chris Ball
2006-03-06  1:04   ` Jon Masters
2006-03-06  9:31     ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2006-03-06 13:10       ` Jon Masters
2006-03-07  0:11       ` Lee Revell
2006-03-07  0:33         ` Jon Masters
2006-03-07 10:26           ` Steven Rostedt
2006-03-09  2:44             ` Jon Masters
2006-03-06  7:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-06 13:12   ` Jon Masters

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