[RFC][PATCH] audit: log join and part events to the read-only multicast log socket

Paul Moore pmoore at redhat.com
Thu Oct 23 19:08:04 UTC 2014


On Thursday, October 23, 2014 09:19:49 AM LC Bruzenak wrote:
> On 10/22/2014 04:29 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> > Well, like I said, It's probably safer that way as the code will work
> > regardless.  Time to break bad habits :)
> 
> I hear you. But there's working and there's working well.
> As long as we don't suffer a search response degradation by changing the
> assumptive order, as I said, I'm OK with going back and reworking code.
> If it makes searching real data unusable, it's now broken some
> operational stuff.

Performance is a big deal, I think we've all been hearing that for some time 
now.  I get it, and it is something that is and will remain *a* priority.  
However, this fixed ordering is something that is Just Plain Wrong and is 
likely to make life much more difficult for us as we try to improve audit.

-- 
paul moore
security and virtualization @ redhat




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