Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752673AbZIWPmq (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:42:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752106AbZIWPmp (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:42:45 -0400 Received: from pmx1.sophos.com ([213.31.172.16]:54018 "EHLO pmx1.sophos.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751973AbZIWPmo (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:42:44 -0400 From: Tvrtko Ursulin Organization: Sophos Plc To: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: fanotify as syscalls Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:42:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Davide Libenzi , Andreas Gruenbacher , Jamie Lokier , Eric Paris , Linus Torvalds , Evgeniy Polyakov , David Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" , "alan@linux.intel.com" , "hch@infradead.org" References: <20090912094110.GB24709@ioremap.net> <200909230939.34003.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> <20090923133232.5577688d@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090923133232.5577688d@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200909231642.43563.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on Mercury/Servers/Sophos(Release 7.0.3|September 26, 2007) at 23/09/2009 16:42:43, Serialize by Router on Mercury/Servers/Sophos(Release 7.0.3|September 26, 2007) at 23/09/2009 16:42:44, Serialize complete at 23/09/2009 16:42:44 X-TNEFEvaluated: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1037 Lines: 24 On Wednesday 23 September 2009 12:32:32 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:39:33 +0100 > > Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: > > Lived with it because there was no other option. We used LSM while it > > was available for modules but then it was taken away. > > ... at which point you could have submitted your LSM module for > inclusion... you'd be the first (and only?) Anti Virus vendor that > would be in the mainline kernel.. speaking of competitive advantage, > coming out of the box in all distributions. > > sadly this road hasn't been chosen.... It has, but since what we had wasn't acceptable the road was long and it turned into fanotify. Which is not only about anti-malware (hello Christoph) so I think this sub-thread is going off-topic. Tvrtko -- 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/