key in syscall audit rules.

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Tue May 17 20:47:26 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 17 May 2005 16:38, David Woodhouse wrote:
> That would be hard to introduce into audit rules without breaking binary
> compatibility. 

Could the string go at the end? Then based on nlmsg_len, either have the old 
behavior or the new.

> The way it's done, you have 4 milliard possible keys for 
> syscall auditing rules. Do you really think that's insufficient?

Its not that its insufficient - its not the same. The patch uses a number 
while filesystem auditing is a text string. The idea is to provide a like 
feature regardless of what kind of audit rule.

-Steve




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