From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <430C8309.9090507@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:24:09 -0400 From: Daniel J Walsh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Smalley CC: Darrel Goeddel , SE Linux Subject: Re: libselinux category patch References: <430A33E5.1030100@redhat.com> <1124815922.7874.124.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <1124817712.7874.138.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <1124820200.7874.163.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <430C75B4.3020008@redhat.com> <1124892792.11553.26.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> In-Reply-To: <1124892792.11553.26.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Stephen Smalley wrote: >On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:27 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > >>I still want at least the set_comp diff to allow me to set level to >>NULL, so it does not show up. >> >> > >Hmm...I dropped the set_comp diff entirely from the original patch >because I didn't want the change to allow whitespace in the context, as >per our earlier discussion on the list. I didn't notice that you were >also changing it to allow NULL. Potential issue there is that your >change would allow setting a NULL for any field, whereas context_str >won't handle a NULL gracefully in any field other than the last. > > > Which is too bad since object_r is totally useless in ls output :^). Well we can either make sure it is that last field or not allow it. As I play with MCS, I am not sure whether we want this info or not, my problem with this field and object_r is that they give no info and take up a lot of screen space. (Although, probably an Engineer problem and not a real world problem.) >With regard to clearing the context pointers on entry to the raw >functions, I don't see why it is necessary given my earlier patch. > > > Ok, you can forget about them. -- -- 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.