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From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
To: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Andrew Morgan <agm@google.com>,
	casey@schaufler-ca.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:00:54 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <989837.80686.qm@web36614.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468C1157.70905@kernel.org>


--- Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> wrote:

> no one has yet actually
> given an example of where fE being richer than a simple binary helps
> anything. Until I see an example, I'm going to hold the position that
> this is needless "complexity".

The only counter to this argument is that you now have a different
structure on files than on processes. Not a major issue, but one 
structure to describe capability sets is less complex than two.
That way you can have one function to print a capset, regardless
of its coming off a file or a process.

Just a thought.


Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-04 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <878322.98602.qm@web36606.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
     [not found]   ` <afff21250706110926l244ddc28i44289cb08a6721e2@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <20070617135239.GA17689@sergelap>
     [not found]       ` <4676007F.7060503@kernel.org>
     [not found]         ` <20070618044017.GW3723@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
     [not found]           ` <20070620171037.GA28670@sergelap.ibm.com>
     [not found]             ` <20070620174613.GF3723@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
2007-06-21 16:00               ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-23  8:13                 ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Andrew Morgan
2007-06-24 15:51                   ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-24 16:18                     ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch James Morris
2007-06-24 20:58                       ` [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface James Morris
2007-06-24 22:09                         ` Chris Wright
2007-06-24 22:37                           ` James Morris
2007-06-25  1:38                             ` Chris Wright
2007-06-24 23:40                           ` Casey Schaufler
2007-06-25  1:39                             ` Chris Wright
2007-06-25  3:37                               ` Casey Schaufler
2007-06-25  3:57                                 ` Chris Wright
2007-06-25 13:02                                   ` Casey Schaufler
2007-06-25 14:24                                 ` Roberto De Ioris
2007-06-25  4:33                           ` [PATCH try #2] " James Morris
2007-06-25  4:48                             ` Petr Vandrovec
2007-06-25  4:58                               ` James Morris
2007-06-25 16:59                             ` Stephen Smalley
2007-06-25 23:56                               ` [PATCH try #3] " James Morris
2007-06-25 20:37                             ` [PATCH try #2] " Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-06-25 21:14                               ` James Morris
2007-06-26  3:57                                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-26 13:15                                   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-26 14:06                                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-26 14:59                                       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-26 15:53                                         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-26 18:52                                           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-26 18:18                                       ` Greg KH
2007-06-26 18:40                                         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-26  4:09                               ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-26  4:25                                 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-26 13:47                                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-27  0:07                                   ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-27  0:57                                     ` Crispin Cowan
2007-06-27  1:22                                       ` Kyle Moffett
2007-06-27  4:24                                       ` Chris Wright
2007-06-27 13:41                                     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-27 14:36                                       ` James Morris
2007-06-27 17:21                                         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-27 18:51                                           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-27 19:28                                             ` James Morris
2007-06-28  2:48                                               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-25  3:57                         ` [PATCH][RFC] " Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-25  4:10                           ` Chris Wright
2007-06-25  4:54                             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-25 13:50                           ` Casey Schaufler
2007-06-25 13:54                             ` James Morris
2007-06-25 14:32                             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-25 15:08                               ` Casey Schaufler
2007-06-27  5:00                     ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Andrew Morgan
2007-06-27 13:16                       ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-28  6:19                         ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Andrew Morgan
2007-06-28 13:36                           ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-28 15:14                           ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Casey Schaufler
2007-06-28 15:38                             ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-28 15:56                               ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Casey Schaufler
2007-06-29  5:30                                 ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Andrew Morgan
2007-06-29 13:24                                   ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Serge E. Hallyn
2007-06-29 14:46                                   ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Casey Schaufler
2007-06-28 15:50                             ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Andrew Morgan
2007-07-02 14:38                   ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Serge E. Hallyn
2007-07-04 21:29                     ` implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch Andrew Morgan
2007-07-04 23:00                       ` Casey Schaufler [this message]

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