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SubjectRe: fanotify as syscalls
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:39:33AM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> Lived with it because there was no other option. We used LSM while it was
> available for modules but then it was taken away.
>
> And not all vendors even use syscall interception, not even across platforms,
> of which you sound so sure about. You can't even scan something which is not
> in your namespace if you are at the syscall level. And you can't catch things
> like kernel nfsd. No, syscall interception is not really appropriate at all.

The "Anti-Malware" industry is just snake oil anyway. I think the
proper approach to support it is just to add various no-op exports claim
to do something and all the people requiring anti-virus on Linux will be
just as happy with it.



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