Re: [AppArmor 01/41] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_create LSM hook

Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-05-25T20:00:49Z

On Friday 25 May 2007 19:43, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> [...] but the AppArmor code could certainly check for that in exec by
> enforcing the argv[0] convention. It would be perfectly reasonable for a
> system that is so dependent on pathnames to require that.

Hmm ... that's a strange idea. AppArmor cannot assume anything about argv[0],
and it would be a really bad idea to change the well-established semantics of
argv[0].

There is no actual need for looking at argv[0], though: AppArmor decides based
on the actual pathname of the executable...

Thanks,
Andreas