Re: [patch] inotify, improved.

From: Chris Wright
Date: Fri Jun 17 2005 - 11:45:22 EST


* Chris Friesen (cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> >It's also racy as hell. By the time the inotify gets delivered to the
> >userspace process, pid 820 may be long gone.....
>
> Yep. But I can see uses for people to want to log all activity on
> specific directory trees. Think audit trails, etc.

This is already done by the audit patch. I don't think inotify has
quite enough info to build a comprehensive audit record.
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