linux-kernel - Re: TALPA - a threat model? well sorta.

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:24:37 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, malware-list@...ts.printk.net,
	andi@...stfloor.org, riel@...hat.com, greg@...ah.com,
	tytso@....edu, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, arjan@...radead.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: TALPA - a threat model?  well sorta.

> So, what is it that anti-malware companies do?  They scan files.  That's
> it. 

Good so lets instead have a discussion about making the file event
notification more scalable. That is the same thing I want for content
indexing. It is the same thing you want for certain kinds of smart
archiving, for on-line asynchronous backup and other stuff.

It ought to be a simple clean syscall interface.

Alan
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