directory change notification patch

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:37 +0000, Mark Weaver wrote:
> >>Sorry, I'm a bit confused now.  Does this mean that there is already a 
> >>patch that does the same thing?  I couldn't find anything, other than 
> >>the original that I based my changes off -- from Feb 2003 -- and 
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, it's that one. It's been outstanding a long time :-(.
> > 
> I'm sure that there have been plenty of other things to take care of!
> 
> Here's another version of the patch with the following changes:
> 
> * Hopefully resolve security issue opening directories in 
> kernel_notify.c by opening them and then becoming root before issuing 
> the DNOTIFY call. 

BTW, is there any movement on using inotify() instead (if available)?
That seems to be the way the wind is now blowing...

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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