Re: [PATCH 1/2 -v3] Namespacing of security/selinux

[Glenn Faden <Glenn.Faden@sun.com>]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 17:49 -0400, Thomas Liu wrote:
>   
>> This includes namespacing of all items originally labeled
>> security_ with sel_.
>>
>> In addition, the functions sel_netif_sid and security_netif_sid
>> have been renamed because the namespacing would cause a conflict.
>>
>> sel_netif_sid has been renamed to sel_netif_sid_by_index, and
>> security_netif_sid has been renamed to sel_netif_sid_by_name
>>     
>
> This patch has a minor reject against the current security-testing tree.
>
> However, I'm having second thoughts about the renaming idea.  There are
> a rather large number of documents, not to mention the userspace API,
> that talk about security_compute_av() and friends, and thus I'm a bit
> hesitant to render them all obsolete.
>   
Changing the namespace from security_ to sel_ or selinux_ makes it more 
difficult for Solaris and other non-linux systems which may be 
supporting Flask, to be compatible at the library level with policy 
management applications.

--Glenn

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