Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762949AbYHEXie (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:38:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761683AbYHEXiV (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:38:21 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:60484 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757785AbYHEXiI (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:38:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 00:37:43 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Greg KH Cc: "Press, Jonathan" , Theodore Tso , Arjan van de Ven , Eric Paris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, malware-list@lists.printk.net, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro toalinuxinterfaceforonaccess scanning Message-ID: <20080805233743.GK28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <2629CC4E1D22A64593B02C43E85553030480743B@USILMS12.ca.com> <20080805181141.GA10700@kroah.com> <2629CC4E1D22A64593B02C43E85553030480743F@USILMS12.ca.com> <20080805185438.GA8453@mit.edu> <2629CC4E1D22A64593B02C43E855530304AE4ADB@USILMS12.ca.com> <20080805211445.GA28304@kroah.com> <2629CC4E1D22A64593B02C43E855530304AE4ADC@USILMS12.ca.com> <20080805214415.GA5830@kroah.com> <2629CC4E1D22A64593B02C43E855530303E21D47@USILMS12.ca.com> <20080805222638.GA6395@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080805222638.GA6395@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1063 Lines: 23 On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 03:26:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:12:34PM -0400, Press, Jonathan wrote: > > Sorry for the top-post... but I give up. > > > > I don't think I'm stupid, but frankly I don't understand the point of > > the questions being asked in the last three responses to my statement. > > I don't know why they are relevant, and I don't know how to answer > > them in a framework that we can all understand at the same time. Excuse me? One of those questions had been a very specific yes-or-no one and I certainly hope that we all can understand either answer to such... For the record, the question is "Do you or do you not expect the malware to be active on scanning host?" I hope that relevance of that to the analysis of software involved in scanning should be obvious. -- 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/