On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 15:03 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
What concerns me is unclear/unstable semantics and a lack of a clear
subdivision between this mechanism and the inode-based syscall filters:
- Auditing may or may not be preserved on hard links when using the
watches depending on memory pressure, reboots, or whether the watched
name is unlinked; is always preserved for inode-based watches.
- Auditing is never preserved for renames when using the watches; is
always preserved for inode-based watches.
- Auditing is automatically enabled for new files when they are created
in watched locations when using watches; requires userspace modification
to achieve with inode-based watches.
Sorry, terminology error - s/inode-based watches/inode-based syscall
filters/g
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Stephen Smalley <sds(a)tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency