No need for apologies, just trying to fill you in. I misread your last line
as placing a period at the perens... bionic still sucks :-P I thought you
were aware of the port sitting in Gerrit. Anyways, this port has been
merged into the SE for Android repos run by the NSA as well.

https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/51650/
https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/51651/



On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Nathaniel Husted <[email protected]> wrote:

> Will, my sincere apologies, I was unaware Google had written one up ( I've
> only ever been looking at Jellybean's external directory these days).
> Where's the code for your audit port hanging out? I'm really glad to see
> someone took the time and did it right. Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Nathaniel
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:09 PM, William Roberts <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Nathan,
>>
>> The "robust port that Google has" was done by me, so we can always use
>> that :-P The newest features that i back-ported from the upstream kernel
>> were for a separate feature need that came about when I was at Samsung,
>> which was the need to send the kernel messages to both kmsg and a userspace
>> auditd. Eric created a patch for a more generic feature setting
>> and retrieval implementation on the kernel side, that I rebased my kernel
>> patch for the "always send to kmsg feature" onto. They were tested on the
>> desktop, seemed to be fine. I just haven't had the time to get back to the
>> Android port to test it; likely it will be fine. I just wanted to keep
>> Eric/community abreast of my porting activity.
>>
>> FYI I saw your port early on, the reason I wrote one from scratch was due
>> to the license issues.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Nathaniel Husted <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> If you'd like to test your patch out I have a userland fork of audit you
>>> can use (https://github.com/nwhusted/AuditdAndroid). For various
>>> reasons we gutted the networking implementation in userland and shoved
>>> audisp's AF_Unix plugin where auditd's networking should be (don't ask).
>>> Only auditd and auditctl will compile (the other programs have certain
>>> GNU/libc stuff that I didn't write bridge-code for), but that should be
>>> more then enough to run through some logging on Android.
>>>
>>> At some point I'll have time to go back and make a robust port of audit
>>> as Google has started (hopefully) getting there stuff together and turning
>>> bionic from a piece of junk into something usable.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nathaniel
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:08 AM, William Roberts <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So I ported the initial "audit: implement generic feature setting and
>>>> retrieving" to Android as well as rebased my patch ontop. Since I didn't
>>>> author the original patch, I just wanted to keep you abreast of where it
>>>> was going.
>>>>
>>>> https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/60880/
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Respectfully,
>>>>
>>>> William C Roberts
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Respectfully,
>>
>> William C Roberts
>>
>>
>


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