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Message-Id: <1218045989.27684.257.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:06:29 -0400 From: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com> To: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> Cc: tvrtko.ursulin@...hos.com, Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, malware-list@...ts.printk.net, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforon access scanning On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 12:25 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:12:56 +0100 > tvrtko.ursulin@...hos.com wrote: > > Rik van Riel wrote on 06/08/2008 16:46:04: > > > > More importantly, getting info on which bytes in a file changed > > > will also help backup programs and disk indexing programs. > > > > True, but Nick mentioned some huge issues with access after close and > > munmap in one of your previous postings. It sounds to me that would be a > > huge VM/filesystem work to actually enable things like this. > > A universally useful large change is often easier to get into > the Linux kernel than a single-purpose hack. Over engineering in a void for some supposed someday user isn't a good idea either. If there are other people interested in working together to come up with a solution to multiple needs I'm here to help! -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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