Logging failed open() calls on /var/log/audit/audit.log

[Alexander Viro]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 05:36:43PM -0400, Linda Knippers wrote:
> Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 17:15, Amy Griffis wrote:
> > 
> >>If you would like to see a record in this case, you must add a watch
> >>for /var/log/audit.
> > 
> > 
> > I don't see a record watching this either.
> 
> I think we're missing the directory lookup syscall(s) on watches
> right now.

Careful - that's one hell of a hot path.  Note that we'll get many of
those for each syscall that does pathname resolution; moreover, when
we hit dcache, we should be careful about blocking.