On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:33:05PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 July 2005 19:50, Greg KH wrote:
> > As inotify works off of open file descriptors, yes, this is true. ?But,
> > again, if you think this is really important, then why not just work
> > with inotify to provide that kind of support to it?
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110265021327578&w=2
>
> I think Tim was told not to dig into inotify.
That was over 6 months ago. Things change :)
> A lot of effort has been put into testing the code Tim has presented
> with review from several kernel developers (listed in the cc). They
> too should step up and give their opinion on this.
Sure, be glad to listen to them.
> I want to believe questions were asked about this last December when we were
> starting into this effort. I think the conclusion from the inotify people was
> for us to proceed and then when we know what we really want, we can refactor
> should anything be in common.
I fail to see any refactoring here, why not make your patch rely on
theirs?
> > I suggest you work together with the inotify developers to hash out your
> > differences, as it sounds like you are duplicating a lot of the same
> > functionality.
>
> Maybe yes and no. Now that the fs audit code is out, I think we can spot
> commonality. The only common piece that I can think of is just the hook.
That's a good place to start.
> The whole rest of it is different. I hope the inotify people comment
> on this to see if there is indeed something that should be refactored.
I realize your userspace access is different, yet I do not believe yet
that it should be this way.
> > Do you have any documetation or example userspace code that shows how to
> > use this auditfs interface you have created?
>
> people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit
No documentation on the auditfs interface :(
> The audit package is currently distributed in Fedora Core 4. The code to use
> Tim's fs audit code is in the user space app, but is waiting for the kernel
> pieces.
So the userspace package in FC4 will not use auditfs?
thanks,
greg k-h
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