From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262019AbVFQQrI (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:47:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262020AbVFQQrH (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:47:07 -0400 Received: from mx3.actcom.co.il ([192.114.47.65]:15850 "EHLO smtp3.actcom.co.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262019AbVFQQrC (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:47:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:46:46 +0300 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda To: Chris Friesen Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Robert Love , Nick Piggin , Zach Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , John McCutchan , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch] inotify, improved. Message-ID: <20050617164646.GC18030@granada.merseine.nu> References: <1118855899.3949.21.camel@betsy> <42B1BC4B.3010804@zabbo.net> <1118946334.3949.63.camel@betsy> <42B227B5.3090509@yahoo.com.au> <1118972109.7280.13.camel@phantasy> <1119021336.3949.104.camel@betsy> <42B2EE31.9060709@nortel.com> <1119023078.3949.115.camel@betsy> <200506171611.j5HGBFY8012609@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42B2FBF3.6010607@nortel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42B2FBF3.6010607@nortel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:36:03AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > >It's also racy as hell. By the time the inotify gets delivered to the > >userspace process, pid 820 may be long gone..... > > Yep. But I can see uses for people to want to log all activity on > specific directory trees. Think audit trails, etc. If it's an audit trail, it should be provided by the audit subsystem, not just inotify. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/