Comments on: Taking inqueries for iSpy http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2009/04/taking-inqueries-for-ispy/ Notice the Tao Effects... Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:53:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg Slepak http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2009/04/taking-inqueries-for-ispy/comment-page-1/#comment-1916 Greg Slepak Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:31:51 +0000 http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/?p=420#comment-1916 <i style="color:inherit">it will pass that data to a user-land application</i> The data is not passed, you are only given the file path and various other info about it like the process that causing the event, the user id, etc. it will pass that data to a user-land application

The data is not passed, you are only given the file path and various other info about it like the process that causing the event, the user id, etc.

]]> By: tagnal http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2009/04/taking-inqueries-for-ispy/comment-page-1/#comment-1915 tagnal Tue, 07 Dec 2010 21:36:47 +0000 http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/?p=420#comment-1915 Thanks for the reply. So when iSpy intercepts a write operation, to say a .txt file, it will pass that data to a user-land application. Can that application manipulate that data and pass it back to iSpy before it gets written onto the disk? I guess what I'm asking is if iSpy gives some similar capabilities as what a FS Filter Driver would on a windows system. Does that make sense? Thanks for the reply. So when iSpy intercepts a write operation, to say a .txt file, it will pass that data to a user-land application. Can that application manipulate that data and pass it back to iSpy before it gets written onto the disk?

I guess what I’m asking is if iSpy gives some similar capabilities as what a FS Filter Driver would on a windows system. Does that make sense?

]]> By: Greg Slepak http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2009/04/taking-inqueries-for-ispy/comment-page-1/#comment-1914 Greg Slepak Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:47:22 +0000 http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/?p=420#comment-1914 @tagnal: yes, you could simply tell it to watch subfolders for any file creation and then check the filetype based on the file extension that's being used (and this would be done "before it happens"). @tagnal: yes, you could simply tell it to watch subfolders for any file creation and then check the filetype based on the file extension that’s being used (and this would be done “before it happens”).

]]> By: tagnal http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2009/04/taking-inqueries-for-ispy/comment-page-1/#comment-1912 tagnal Tue, 07 Dec 2010 01:40:48 +0000 http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/?p=420#comment-1912 Does iSpy allow you to detect whenever a specific filetype is created/access/modified? Say someone saves a .txt file in a random location on the hard drive, would you be able to intercept that event "before it happens"? Does iSpy allow you to detect whenever a specific filetype is created/access/modified?

Say someone saves a .txt file in a random location on the hard drive, would you be able to intercept that event “before it happens”?

]]> By: Greg Slepak http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2009/04/taking-inqueries-for-ispy/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Greg Slepak Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:48:02 +0000 http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/?p=420#comment-165 fslogger simply uses FSEvents, which does not have all the capabilities of iSpy. fslogger simply uses FSEvents, which does not have all the capabilities of iSpy.

]]> By: tahome http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2009/04/taking-inqueries-for-ispy/comment-page-1/#comment-163 tahome Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:58:19 +0000 http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/?p=420#comment-163 This looks very much like fslogger, which is free with source code provided under the GPL: http://osxbook.com/software/fslogger/ This looks very much like fslogger, which is free with source code provided under the GPL: http://osxbook.com/software/fslogger/

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