From: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>
To: Shaz <shazalive@gmail.com>
Cc: selinux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>,
libc-help@sourceware.org, Masoom Alam <masoom.alam@gmail.com>,
Waqar Afridi <afridi.waqar@gmail.com>,
Sanaullah khan <sanaullahkhan83@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: SELinux support in Libc
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:13:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFD8EFC.80502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiknYkF6FzlZATVKYqRALcC-z7igCAnoecmyjsoA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/26/2010 01:44 PM, Shaz wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Shaz <shazalive@gmail.com
> <mailto:shazalive@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I was building eglibc and saw selinux support flag in it's
> configure script. Any idea what this is used for. Some hints
> and pointers needed.
>
> SELinux works for me without this support as far as I
> understand but need to get all the goodies that are available.
> Couln't find anything with a bit of googling!
>
>
> According to Eric it has something to do with nscd. Is nscd part
> of libc now? Why do we need an object manager here?
>
> "
>
> Glibc's nscd keeps its name service caches in fixed-size files. These
>
>
> are always mmap'd into the nscd daemon address space. "persistent" and
> "shared" are both per-name-service options.
>
>
> "
> http://anusf.anu.edu.au/~djh900/nscd.html
> <http://anusf.anu.edu.au/%7Edjh900/nscd.html>
>
>
> http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/NSS_Caching mentions some
> concepts but what can be a possible usecase to understand what this
> object manager really achieves.
>
> By the way could;nt find relevant eglibc mailing list for this question.
>
> --
> Shaz
>
I would try libc:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
(maybe libc-help, and/or general question
list or something).
Justin P. Mattock
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-26 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-26 7:05 SELinux support in Libc Shaz
2010-05-26 20:27 ` Shaz
2010-05-26 20:44 ` Shaz
2010-05-26 21:13 ` Justin P. Mattock [this message]
2010-05-27 0:40 ` Stephen Smalley
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