On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, gary clark wrote: > Hello, > > I want to be able to log file transfers from a PC to > USB storage devices? Can this be achieved in user > space or will I have to patch the kernel usb storage > driver to achieve this. I was thinking the latter > would be the obvious choice. Any ideas on this would > be appreciated.
There's no way to do this from within the kernel. The kernel can't tell the difference between a file transfer and any other I/O operation. And usb-storage can't tell whether a particular I/O operation involves file data. A simple userspace approach would be to set up a shell alias for the "cp" command. Have it add a line to the log file in addition to doing the copy. Of course, that won't catch all file transfers. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
