Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752049AbWCGK0U (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 05:26:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752134AbWCGK0U (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 05:26:20 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.57]:15595 "EHLO ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752049AbWCGK0U (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 05:26:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 05:26:09 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: jonathan@jonmasters.org cc: Lee Revell , Helge Hafting , Chris Ball , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate In-Reply-To: <35fb2e590603061633w2dd7fff4m63e73ee8ed409951@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <35fb2e590603051336t5d8d7e93i986109bc16a8ec38@mail.gmail.com> <35fb2e590603051704k120e0257wb39c3e3eb1cf0b49@mail.gmail.com> <440C0175.7040909@aitel.hist.no> <1141690310.25487.97.camel@mindpipe> <35fb2e590603061633w2dd7fff4m63e73ee8ed409951@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1519 Lines: 36 On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jon Masters wrote: > On 3/7/06, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:31 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > As for the non-existent virus problem - it is mostly prevented > > > by users not being administrators. And you can go further > > > with a readonly /usr and a noexec /home. > > > I believe he is referring to using Linux systems to provide virus > > scanning services for mail, NFS, SMB etc. clients, rather than to virus > > scanning for the Linux desktop (which is indeed a non problem). > > Sure. I wasn't hand waving an muttering about virus problems on Linux > desktops everywhere. > > Anyway. Seems a couple of us are interested in having something more > generic at the VFS level to notify userspace about particular events > of interest (recursively registering a watcher on every directory is > silly). I really should go scope out some of the existing projects > that cover this before I decide what to do. This kind of thing should > be in mainline IMHO. > Hmm, this could also be very useful for change management systems and especially backup utilities. Imagine having a daemon that records all the changes on a filesystem, and then backs them up periodically. Could very well be useful. -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/