On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 18:36 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Thu, 06 Aug 2009, Eric Paris wrote: > > just work. The whole reason for the timeout is because I don't trust > > userspace not to get it wrong and I'd rather not lose my box because of > > it. > > IMO this has nothing to do with userspace(*) and everything to do with > complexity. Virus scanning is complex and any such code, whether > runing in userspace or not, can easily screw up and freeze the system. I agree, 'userspace' was not the best term. Let me rephrase: "The whole reason for the timeout is because I don't trust anything not to get it wrong and I'd rather not lose my box because of it." > The way to solve that is not to implement hacks on the kernel > interface, but rather by separating the complex parts and implementing > a simple watchdog layer on top of that, that makes sure things don't > go wrong. So you would argue that every fanotify listener implement their own watchdog layer that may or may not be correct rather than do a single watchdog layer for everyone? And that's better? -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
