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mackmanlast Sunday at 2:05 PM1 replyview on HN

In theory the parsing could run at a low privilege level subprocess. Root/admin is only needed to get the bytes.


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tatersolidlast Sunday at 11:00 PM

That’s generally too slow though; these things run in kernel space as they scan every I/O stream. Context switching and memory copies would kill performance.

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