Re: Upstream first policy

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 05:49:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> That's a good point, btw, and shows one conceptual difference between 
> content-based and pathname-based rules.
> 
> For example, if you want to log any changes to "/etc/passwd" (which is 
> something pretty reasonable to do at least conceptually), what about doing 
> a bind mount on top of that file?

Doesn't have to be a binding over /etc/passwd, BTW.  /etc as a mountpoint will
serve just as well.
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