Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:37:11 +0200 | From | "Ahmed S. Darwish" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser(2) |
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Hi Pavel,
On Nov 11, 2007 2:44 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > Hi! > > > > A Smack Rule in an "egrep" format is: > > > > > > "^[:space:]*Subject[:space:]+Object[:space:]+[rwxaRWXA-]+[:space:]*\n" > > Perhaps you should make it space, not 'space or tab', and only allow > lowercase permissions? That way, parser will be slightly simpler, and > you'll still have a chance to use 'R' as 'slightly different r'. >
Thanks for your care about this. It seems not a lot of people have noticed, but to stop any objections not related to the core smack code, Casey decided to let the parsing be done in a user-space utility that sends the rules to the kernel in a predefined strict format.
You can find how the whole story in the smackv11 announcement here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.lsm/4463
Regards,
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