Thread (82 messages) 82 messages, 15 authors, 2009-09-23

Re: fanotify as syscalls

From: "hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2009-09-23 21:58:50
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:35:18AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
The fear is that this becomes a trojan horse (no pun intended) for more 
and more hooks and "stuff", driven by we-really-need-this-too and 
we-really-need-that-too. And once something it's in, it's harder to say no, 
under the pressure of offering a "limited solution".
This ws the reason I threw the syscall tracing thing in, so they have a 
low level generic hook, and they cam knock themselves out in their module 
(might need a few exports, but that's about it).
Replacing idiotify with a saner interface is a good goal.  I just don't
think we should take the stakes of the snake oil industry too serious in
it.
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