linux-kernel - Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linuxinterfaceforon access scanning

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Date:	Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:54:38 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@...com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	malware-list@...ts.printk.net,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a
	linuxinterfaceforon access scanning

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:38:23PM -0400, Press, Jonathan wrote:
> Is your point that Linux and Unix machines are less vulnerable to
> viruses?  If so, that's not relevant to my point at all.  A Unix machine
> can be a carrier, passing infections on to other vulnerable platforms
> (guess which one).  An enterprise security system sees the entire
> enterprise as an integrated whole -- not just individual machines with
> their own separate attributes and no impact on each other at all.

Sure, but if that's the case, you don't need to have a blocking open()
interface.  Having inotify tell your application that a file
descriptor that had been opened for writing has been closed
(IN_CLOSE_WRITE) should be quite sufficient.

						- Ted
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