From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.16-rc6-m1 PATCH] Connector: Filesystem Events Connector try 2
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:58:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060316155801.298e7e9e.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44198795.2080407@gmail.com>
Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This new patch is update for last patch, it removes spinlock and
> makes include/linux/fsnotify.h more clean when CONFIG_FS_EVENTS=n,
> it also reformats some too long lines so that they are less than 80
> columns.
>
> This patch implements a new connector, Filesystem Event Connector,
> the user can monitor filesystem activities via it, currently, it
> can monitor access, attribute change, open, create, modify, delete,
> move and close of any file or directory.
>
> Every filesystem event will include tgid, uid and gid of the process
> which triggered this event, process name, file or directory name
> operated by it.
That would seem to have some privacy implications...
I'd expect that all the info which is needed can be obtained via syscall
auditing.
I don't recall having seen demand for this feature before. For what reason
is it needed? What is the application?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-16 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-16 15:43 Yi Yang
2006-03-16 23:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-17 1:25 ` Yi Yang
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