Re: [malware-list] [RFC] 0/11 fanotify: fscking all notifictionand file access system (intended for antivirus scanning and fileindexers)

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Sep 26 2008 - 17:52:52 EST


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:34:04PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It all starts when 'something' registers a group. Registering a group
> > is as simple as 'echo "open_grp 50 0x10" > /security/fanotify/register.
>
> I thought the operation was usually called "mkdir" which also nicely
> deals with races and exclusion.

So does configfs. Eric, why not use that instead, it sounds like it
will work here nicely.

thanks,

greg k-h
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