On Nov 29, 2007 9:45 AM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps if you looked at this outside of a file-server scenario, the > > problem would be clearer? Anti-malware companies want to check > > anything written to disk on a system, either at write time or blocking > > the open/mmap. That means proactively protecting email programs with > > known vulnerabilities that have yet to be patched, web browsers > > writing and reading their caches, an Apache instance running WebDAV, > > the list goes on. And these are on desktop systems, with no attached > > file/network server. > > Ok, if they want to check on every open/mmap then just hook in glibc to > do this. Especially as they want to run userspace code at this point in > time.
Doesn't help statically linked binaries, or anything else that bypases glibc. But yes, I'll let them argue their point from here. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
