Re: [malware-list] [RFC 0/5] [TALPA] Intro to a linuxinterfaceforon access scanning

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:39:34 -0400
Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:27 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> > but close is... very limited in value. Open is a discrete event
> > traditionally associated withh permission checks.
> > Close... not so.  (And if you mmap memory, you can then close the file
> > and still write to it via the mmap)
> 
> Thankfully my implementation will invalidate that close time check and
> caching result.  It does the invalidating the same place we update mtime
> and my understanding is that mmap has been updating mtime for quite a
> while now. 

Then isn't the close time check superfluous, since you do the
checks at change time already?

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