Re: New ideas on implementation on libsetrans.

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>]

Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:54 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>>Yes we are having problems with linking against the library and having 
>>different plugins to the library just doesnot feel right.
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>
>I'm still not sure what the problem is with dlopen'ing libsetrans, and
>letting it take care of the communication (and caching) _if_ any
>translation is desired at all.  Why bloat libselinux with that
>infrastructure for people who don't want any label translation?
>
>I understand that the attempt to dlopen a per-policytype libsetrans was
>getting complicated, although I'm not sure why you couldn't just
>dlopen /usr/lib/libsetrans.so symlink and use alternatives to manage
>what that references outside of libselinux.
>
>  
>
Most of the people I talk to in Red Hat don't like alternatives.    We 
can change to just use libsetrans and implement to communication in this 
library, but I don't see that as adding much value.

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