-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-07-09 at 18:03 -0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
Yeah, so of course it makes no sense at all to spend time on implementing on-access scanning. Ever.
You are right, it doesn't make sense :-P
As I understand, it was implemented and then removed. It is not needed.
So, if I was going to be facetious, I'd say that AppArmor/SELinux also should be removed, since the only things changing files should be things the user is aware of, right? MAC is just an unneeded layer, since it takes effort on the user's part to change configuration settings and such. ;-)
You'd find there has been lots of discussions about AA between the kernel devs. I'm not even sure AA is on the main kernel yet, it wasn't for some time. But AA serves a pourpose, O-A-S doesn't :-P No, seriously, AA is seen to do protection now in Linux against some types of attacks. Antivirus no, not now, yet, and hopefully, never.
I understand it's more a kernel issue, so from the standpoint of implementing it, this is the wrong place to discuss the actual implementation.
Yes, but I suppose the dazuko people could (should!) argue that point with the kernel devs. I hope they did and lost, because the thought that they simply forgot to argue or did not notice the problem is worse. I, dunno. The thing is they have been overrun by the train and left their users with their pants down. Bad on them, not the fault of suse as the OP claimed. Hopefully they will find some way to do they type of scanning you want, but that will take some time. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIdQKYtTMYHG2NR9URAqTfAJ4jG6+jKTE95bGE7BF5xxcGCLlO8ACeJQOo U4yl+KSKUo3eGL/lDUJog6w= =24Sh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org