watch structure

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Tue Apr 5 15:32:05 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:35 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Question:  Would it be sane for Tim to go ahead and re-base his patch to
> > the latest -mm and submit his RFC on linux-fsdevel now even before
> > resolving the userspace interface issue?
> 
> I would tentatively say yes. It may take a few days to finalize the list 
> watches. (Changing this structure the first step.) Hopefully, dumping the 
> whole list without a path doesn't change the underlying design in any 
> significant way. If dumping the whole list will change the design, we may 
> need to hold off depending on what the changes involve.

Even if it requires significant internal changes to auditfs, I don't
think it will have any impact on the hooks in the VFS, which is
primarily what we need to get feedback on from linux-fsdevel.

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Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency




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