Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:25:00 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       "Press, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Press@ca.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, malware-list@lists.printk.net,
       Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to alinuxinterfaceforon
 access scanning
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:12:56 +0100
tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote on 06/08/2008 16:46:04:

> > More importantly, getting info on which bytes in a file changed
> > will also help backup programs and disk indexing programs.
> 
> True, but Nick mentioned some huge issues with access after close and 
> munmap in one of your previous postings. It sounds to me that would be a 
> huge VM/filesystem work to actually enable things like this.

A universally useful large change is often easier to get into
the Linux kernel than a single-purpose hack.

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