Re: [patch] inotify, improved.

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:44:38 EDT, Robert Love said:
> I have been hesitant, though.  I do not want feature creep to be a
> deterrent to acceptance into the Linux kernel.  I also think that there
> could be arguments about security.  Sending the event is one thing,
> telling which pid (and thus what user, etc.) caused the event is
> another.  For example, we can make the argument that read rights on a
> file are tantamount to the right to receive a read event.  But can we
> say that read rights are enough for a unprivileged user to know that
> root at pid 820 is writing the file?  I don't know.

It's also racy as hell.  By the time the inotify gets delivered to the
userspace process, pid 820 may be long gone.....

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