From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4C10ECF5.7050206@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:47:33 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Smalley CC: James Morris , selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: [PATCH]security:policydb.h Fix a space with "SE Linux" References: <1276121526-10620-1-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> <4C1029CF.3040209@gmail.com> <1276173423.25808.27.camel@moss-pluto.epoch.ncsc.mil> In-Reply-To: <1276173423.25808.27.camel@moss-pluto.epoch.ncsc.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On 06/10/2010 05:37 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 16:54 -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >> On 06/09/2010 04:42 PM, James Morris wrote: >>> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >>> >>>> Fix the space between "SE Linux", to match the other >>>> definitions of "SELinux", in the system. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock >>> >>> NAK, please look at how this is used. >>> >> >> ahh.. I thought this was printk ing things >> into dmesg.. but it's not it's a strlen. > > That string is part of the header of the binary policy file. You can't > change it without breaking compatibility. It has always been that way > in mainline Linux 2.6, and predates that in the SELinux code (circa > 2002). > I did see, where it's being called but while looking at the code, I didn't get what it was doing(to the most part) then after really looking at strlen it's(like what you had said) the header of the binary file or the string length so to change this would breaks lots of things!!("great just what I need"..) thanks for looking at this. Justin P. Mattock -- 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.