From: Nifty Hat Mitch <mitch48@sbcglobal.net>
To: SELinux <SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: Proposed patch for libselinux -- xdr ???
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:28:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041029232840.GA23710@xtl1.xtl.tenegg.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098449318.7614.13.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:48:39AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > diff --exclude-from=exclude -N -u -r nsalibselinux/src/getfilecon.c...
....
> Directly storing an integer in the xattr? Endianness issues; you need
> to convert to a particular ordering before setting and convert back when
> getting.
I am a little late to this party...
Should xdr be specified for data in cases like this?
If all the data had an external data representation specification (man
xdr) then the right thing could happen.
In the world of storage area networks this could be an interesting
topic when the raw bits of the disk are exposed to hardware with
different data representations.
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and may your buffers never overflow.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-29 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-21 21:35 Proposed patch for libselinux Daniel J Walsh
2004-10-22 12:48 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-10-22 13:22 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-10-22 13:44 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-10-22 14:22 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-10-22 15:56 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-22 19:55 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-10-22 20:22 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-10-25 14:52 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-10-25 15:31 ` Colin Walters
2004-10-25 18:00 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-10-26 14:21 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-26 14:13 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-10-26 15:21 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-26 18:05 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-29 23:28 ` Nifty Hat Mitch [this message]
2004-10-22 13:23 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-10-22 13:45 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-10-22 14:15 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-10-22 14:24 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-10-22 14:30 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-10-22 18:01 ` Daniel J Walsh
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