From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (jazzband.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.4]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAADb7Sf003451 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:37:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id hAADb6Kl000407 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:37:06 GMT Received: from nox.lemuria.org ([213.191.86.35]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id hAADb55m000401 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:37:05 GMT Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:37:05 +0100 From: Tom To: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Do we break POSIX? Message-ID: <20031110143701.S16119@lemuria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov One point brought up by Theo DeRaadt during PacSec was that according to POSIX, write operations can not return a permission denied error. I could not argue with him on that because I have not actually read the POSIX standard, but he has a valid point in that breaking standards would be a big no. Does anyone know immediately if this is so and if we are indeed breaking POSIX? If nobody can answer that, I will find out myself, as I've promised him to check. -- PGP/GPG key: http://web.lemuria.org/pubkey.html pub 1024D/2D7A04F5 2002-05-16 Tom Vogt Key fingerprint = C731 64D1 4BCF 4C20 48A4 29B2 BF01 9FA1 2D7A 04F5 -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.