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From: David Collier-Brown <davecb@sun.com>
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Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	malware-list@lists.printk.net,
	malware-list-bounces@dmesg.printk.net,
	Mihai Don??u <mdontu@bitdefender.com>,
	Peter Dolding <oiaohm@gmail.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	rmeijer@xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [malware-list] scanner interface proposal was: [TALPA] Intro to a linux interface for on access scanning
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:34:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48AABDBF.7090706@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808190845000.12859@asgard.lang.hm>

david@lang.hm wrote:
> if you want to be sure there are no race conditions at all in this there 
> would be a need for an 'atomic' (as relates to userspace) way to set an 
> xattr only if another one was set.

Hmmn, such code would rather resemble the O_CREAT|O_EXCL handling in open(2).

--dave
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-19 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808180951470.15109@asgard.lang.hm>
2008-08-19  8:31 ` [malware-list] scanner interface proposal was: [TALPA] Intro to a linux interface for on access scanning tvrtko.ursulin
2008-08-19 16:07   ` david
2008-08-19 12:34     ` David Collier-Brown [this message]
     [not found] <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808180444390.12859@asgard.lang.hm>
     [not found] ` <20080818131628.1C2A22FE82F@pmx1.sophos.com>
2008-08-18 14:25   ` Theodore Tso
2008-08-18 15:31     ` tvrtko.ursulin
2008-08-18 15:31       ` Alan Cox
2008-08-18 13:42         ` David Collier-Brown
2008-08-18 17:53           ` Alan Cox
2008-08-18 18:13           ` david
2008-08-18 15:58         ` tvrtko.ursulin
2008-08-18 17:13           ` david
2008-08-18 16:15       ` Eric Paris
2008-08-18 16:15         ` Alan Cox
2008-08-18 16:54           ` douglas.leeder
2008-08-18 16:40             ` Alan Cox
2008-08-18 17:28           ` Eric Paris
2008-08-18 17:25             ` Alan Cox
2008-08-18 17:54               ` Eric Paris
2008-08-18 18:30                 ` Eric Paris
2008-08-18 18:51                   ` Alan Cox
2008-08-18 18:35                 ` Jan Harkes
2008-08-18 18:46                   ` Eric Paris
2008-08-18 19:04                     ` david
2008-08-18 19:32                     ` Jan Harkes
2008-08-18 17:38             ` david
2008-08-18 17:29         ` david
2008-08-18 17:39           ` Eric Paris
2008-08-18 18:09             ` david
2008-08-18 18:34               ` Eric Paris
2008-08-18 17:07       ` david
2008-08-19  8:40         ` tvrtko.ursulin
2008-08-18 22:40       ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-18 23:07         ` Eric Paris
2008-08-19  1:15           ` Peter Dolding
2008-08-19  8:09             ` douglas.leeder
2008-08-19 11:08               ` Peter Dolding
     [not found]                 ` <20080819114040.2FD1B336880@pmx1.sophos.com>
2008-08-20  3:03                   ` Peter Dolding
2008-08-18 16:28     ` douglas.leeder
     [not found] <20080818101625.85CA12FE876@pmx1.sophos.com>
2008-08-18 10:35 ` douglas.leeder
2008-08-18 12:13   ` david

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