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    On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:10, Jeff Garzik wrote:
    > >>Any idea if security identifiers change with each syscall?
    > >>
    > >>If not, a lot of the xxx_secure syscalls could go away...
    > >
    > > None of them can go away.
    > >
    > > Security identifiers are for the operation you perform. For example
    > > open_secure() is so that you can specify the security context for a new
    > > file that you are creating. connect_secure() is used to specify the
    > > security context of the socket you want to connect to. In the default
    > > setup the only way that connect_secure() and open_secure() can use the
    > > same SID is for unix domain sockets (which are labeled with file types).
    > > A TCP connection will be to a process, the SID of a process is not a
    > > valid type label for a file.
    > >
    > > lstat_secure(), recv_secure() and others are used to retrieve the
    > > security context of the file, network message, etc.
    >
    > What specific information differs per-operation, such that security
    > identifiers cannot be stored internally inside a file handle?

    My previous message obviously wasn't clear enough.

    When you want to read or set the SID of a file handle then you need to pass in
    a SID pointer or a SID.

    This is what the *_secure() system calls do, they set a SID or read a SID.

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