Re: [PATCH] IPC_SET_PERM cleanup

[Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>]

On Tuesday 09 May 2006 16:46, Linda Knippers wrote:
> > The original patches by Dustin and Linda had used "new_iuid=501" to
> > differentiate the values, which I personally think was fine since it's
> > unlikely that people want to be searching for those.
>
> And if they do, they're easy to find with an ausearch | grep.

This is at the wrong level. There may be people that are writing programs that 
want any ouid. I want to stop the proliferation of field names and follow a 
convention. Forget whether or not you think people will ever want the 
information. We need a convention and then to follow it.

> > If you absolutely want to avoid adding new tag names, an alternative
> > would be to get rid of the "new " modifiers, and use the "type=" name to
> > differentiate them. 

I don't want a proliferation of type names either. I think we have a lot of 
them and should try to use existing ones where possible.

-Steve