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Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 09:52:24 -0400
From: Joshua Brindle <method@gentoo.org>
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To: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
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        SE Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: Real simple cache that removes most of the lookups in mcstrans
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Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Basically check if the previous lookup was the same context, if yes 
> return the same translation.   Otherwise do the lookup.
>
> Also included Russells patch for avcstat.
Is this used on MLS? If so this cache needs to be cleared on policy 
reload for proper revocation of translation access. Further, this has no 
way of checking to see if the actual translations changed between the 
last query and this one.

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