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Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:05:17 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Upstream first policy

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 05:49:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> That's a good point, btw, and shows one conceptual difference between 
> content-based and pathname-based rules.
> 
> For example, if you want to log any changes to "/etc/passwd" (which is 
> something pretty reasonable to do at least conceptually), what about doing 
> a bind mount on top of that file?

Doesn't have to be a binding over /etc/passwd, BTW.  /etc as a mountpoint will
serve just as well.
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