Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

Olivier Galibert
2007-10-01T17:54:50Z

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> For example, you security guys still debate "inodes" vs "pathnames", as if
> that was an either-or issue.
>
> Quite frankly, I'm not a security person, but I can tell a bad argument
> from a good one. And an argument that says "inodes _or_ pathnames" is so
> full of shit that it's not even funny. And a person who says that it has
> to be one or the other is incompetent.

Not so much incompetent as religious fundamentalist. Which is worse.

OG.