Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751894AbZIWV7F (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:59:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751076AbZIWV7E (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:59:04 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:52215 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750752AbZIWV7C (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:59:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:58:50 -0400 From: "hch@infradead.org" To: Davide Libenzi Cc: "hch@infradead.org" , Tvrtko Ursulin , 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" Subject: Re: fanotify as syscalls Message-ID: <20090923215850.GA30818@infradead.org> References: <20090912094110.GB24709@ioremap.net> <200909221731.34717.agruen@suse.de> <200909230939.34003.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> <20090923112018.GA2946@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 941 Lines: 18 On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:35:18AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > The fear is that this becomes a trojan horse (no pun intended) for more > and more hooks and "stuff", driven by we-really-need-this-too and > we-really-need-that-too. And once something it's in, it's harder to say no, > under the pressure of offering a "limited solution". > This ws the reason I threw the syscall tracing thing in, so they have a > low level generic hook, and they cam knock themselves out in their module > (might need a few exports, but that's about it). Replacing idiotify with a saner interface is a good goal. I just don't think we should take the stakes of the snake oil industry too serious in it. -- 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/