Re: [ SEPOL ] Move more things to newer debug system

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:07:23PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > > As for threads, Alan Cox said it best:  "A computer is a state machine.
> > > Threads are for people who cant program state machines.".
> > 
> > A true statement, but... complexity explosion makes
> > it useful to move to techniques which make 'what is
> > happening' clearer and easier to understand and to
> > verify.
> 
> Sorry, that isn't a motivation to move to threads.  Quite the opposite.

I'm not talking about selinux needs per-se... but I
have found it much clearer to deal with multiple events
via multiple processes (same thing in linux)  rather 
than with a state machine to try to handle them all. 
I use both techniques all the time. 

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