From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
To: selinux-refpolicy@vger.kernel.org,
Chris PeBenito <chpebeni@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [refpolicy3 RFC] Drop suffixes?
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 20:15:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4896093.0VBMTVartN@xev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0e600cf-b724-8fa9-fb9e-be847f807a22@linux.microsoft.com>
On Saturday, 25 March 2023 05:10:10 AEDT Chris PeBenito wrote:
> I am considering dropping the suffixes from users, roles, and types.
> init_t would become init, user_r would become user, etc.
Even when the syntax prevents the compiler from being confused there is a
benefit to avoiding user confusion. So having user_r:user_t change to
user:user would be bad IMHO.
22 years ago this might have been justified by reducing RAM use or something
but that doesn't apply now. What's the motivation for this?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-25 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-24 18:10 [refpolicy3 RFC] Drop suffixes? Chris PeBenito
2023-03-24 18:31 ` Dominick Grift
2023-03-25 9:15 ` Russell Coker [this message]
2023-03-27 12:32 ` Chris PeBenito
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