On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:36:12AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > The easiest way is as Al described above, just have the userspace > > program that wrote the file to disk, check it then. > > But the problem is that this isn't just Samba, this is a countless > myriad of different applications. And if one of them doesn't support > on-access scanning, then the whole solution isn't worth using.
Ok, which specific applications do they care about? Last time I asked it was still limited to a very small handful, all of which would be trivial to add such a hook to. > > There are some nice SAMBA plugins that do just that already out there... > > That's really not the problem :-) Yes it is. That's all you want to catch, when a Windows machine wants to access a file on a SAMBA server. Do the check then, in userspace. Believe me, I've been over and over and over and over this before... thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/