Ray Lee wrote > 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.
Or NFS servers for that matter, either. -justinb -- Justin Banks BakBone Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/
