From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <437A04A5.10000@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:54:13 -0500 From: Ivan Gyurdiev MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Smalley CC: Daniel J Walsh , SELinux-dev@tresys.com, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: [ SEMANAGE ] Stub pserver backend References: <437907D7.8090002@cornell.edu> <1132054159.5415.282.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <1132055891.5415.305.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> In-Reply-To: <1132055891.5415.305.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 > >> I'd prefer to wait until we have a basic working implementation and a >> user ready for merging. Posting stubs or function prototypes to the >> list as examples is fine, but I don't see much value in merging them. >> It was ok for early development of libsemanage in order to build up >> infrastructure and allow early collaboration/feedback, but I'd prefer to >> move to merging actual implementations now. I'd especially like to see >> sample users (even just dummy test programs) that allow the code to be >> trivially exercised along with the submissions to help put it in >> context. >> Ok, in that case disregard the last two patches - I will resend those with implementation. > > Also, I think we need to think about priorities of tasks; policy server > backend and runtime boolean manipulation via libsemanage seem fairly low > to me right now. Of greater importance would be: > Sure, but stubs are easy to write - just wanted to point to where the functionality should go into. The rest of the things you specified are important, but a bit harder to do... not disregarding the issues. > - Finishing the ports functionality and exporting those interfaces, > I think this is of particularly high importance to Dan - I'll have to work on that soon. > - Creating utilities for managing the other policy components via > libsemanage. > What would all those utilities look like - shell? python with GUI? should I be working on those - Dan? -- 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.