Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:05:00 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove sys_security |
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Greg KH wrote:
> Yes, it's a big switch, but what do you propose otherwise? SELinux > would need a _lot_ of different security calls, which would be fine, but
... or somebody willing to <gasp> try and come up with decent API. Had you reviewed their extra syscalls, BTW? Do it - and remove sharp objects before that...
> we don't want to force every security module to try to go through the > process of getting their own syscalls.
... or, heaven forbid, actually designing interfaces instead of putting together piles of kludges. Can't have it...
> And other subsystems in the kernel do the same thing with their syscall, > like networking, so there is a past history of this usage.
Overloadable by arbitrary protocol family driver? Where?
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