audit 0.7.4 released

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Mon May 9 15:17:46 UTC 2005


On Mon, 09 May 2005 10:10:01 CDT, "Timothy R. Chavez" said:

> I've removed the path_lookup from the audit_to_transport code block.
> Perhaps, we can attempt to find the path via user space once the watch
> is returned (with path), rather then doing it in the kernel.  Then user
> space can set the w_valid field.

This sounds incredibly racy to me, especially in the cases we care about
(like the re-writing of /etc/passwd by creating a tempfile and renaming it).
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