On Tuesday 02 June 2009 04:38:02 pm Eric Paris wrote: > > But lets fix it anyway rather than rely on dumb luck and implementation > > details. > > Self NAK. Userspace was also written by someone who didn't know > netlink. Since userspace is half using the netlink macros and half > depending on this broken nlmsg_len implementation I don't think we can > make any changes in the kernel and they wouldn't be backwards > compatible...
The netlink code is the oldest part of the audit code and predates my involvement. We could fix this if userspace had a way of querying the kernel to see what the audit capabilities are. There have been many times that I've wanted a way to ask the kernel if certain things are supported. -Steve -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
