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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch][RFC] fcntl: add ability to stop monitored processes
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:50:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050613135029.GC8810@hmsendeavour.rdu.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1118670162.13250.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 02:42:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2005-06-12 at 19:10, Neil Horman wrote:
> > How about this?  Its the same feature, with an added check in fcntl_dirnotify to
> > ensure that only processes with CAP_SYS_ADMIN set can tell processes preforming
> 
> Once you are monitoring and sending signals I think its time to ask if
> the interface is in totally the wrong place. Would it not be better if
> it was part of the ptrace interface to the monitored process ?
> 

You mean add the ability to monitor directories for changes to the ptrace
interface entirely?

Regards
Neil

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-13 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-11  0:05 Neil Horman
2005-06-11 18:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-06-11 19:35   ` Neil Horman
2005-06-12 18:10     ` Neil Horman
2005-06-13  6:13       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-13 13:48         ` Neil Horman
2005-06-13 14:03           ` Alan Cox
2005-06-13 15:12             ` Neil Horman
2005-06-13 13:42       ` Alan Cox
2005-06-13 13:50         ` Neil Horman [this message]
2005-06-13 15:10           ` Alan Cox
2005-06-13 15:22             ` Matthew Wilcox

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