>That is excellent news. I would be very interested in seeing your 
>results as you come across them. The 1.8% overhead on the execve call is 
>acceptable in my situation, I would be very interested to see a 
>syscall-by-syscall breakdown if you are taking it that far. Having 
>actual figures to show people of what auditing would cost them would be 
>really valuable.

execve is probably the least interesting system call to measure; it's
hugely expensive (copying large amounts of data from the old address space
to the kernel, tearing down the address space and then copying it back out)

Casper


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