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SubjectRe: [RFC] Virtualization steps
* Sam Vilain (sam@vilain.net) wrote:
> AIUI inode_ops are not globals, they are per FS.

Heh, yes really bad example.

> That to me reads as:
>
> "To avoid having to consider making security_ops non-global we will
> force security modules to be container aware".

Not my intention. Rather, I think from a security standpoint there's
sanity in controlling things with a single policy. I'm thinking of
containers as a simple and logical extension of roles. Point being,
the per-object security label can easily include notion of container.

> It also means you could not mix security modules that affect the same
> operation different containers on a system. Personally I don't care, I
> don't use them. But perhaps this inflexibility will bring problems later
> for some.

No issue with addressing these issues as they come.

thanks,
-chris
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