From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tvrtko Ursulin Subject: Re: fanotify as syscalls Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:42:43 +0100 Message-ID: <200909231642.43563.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> References: <20090912094110.GB24709@ioremap.net> <200909230939.34003.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> <20090923133232.5577688d@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Davide Libenzi , Andreas Gruenbacher , Jamie Lokier , Eric Paris , Linus Torvalds , Evgeniy Polyakov , David Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" , "alan@linux.intel.com" , "hch@infradead.org" To: Arjan van de Ven Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090923133232.5577688d@infradead.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 23 September 2009 12:32:32 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:39:33 +0100 > > Tvrtko Ursulin 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