Re: [PATCH] sysctl selinux: Don't look at table->de

Casey Schaufler
2007-01-29T19:08:45Z

--- Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> True, but a system that disables proc is likely a
> system with a custom
> policy anyway, and dependency on proc is fairly
> basic to selinux these
> days (due to reliance on /proc/self/attr for process
> attribute
> manipulation in place of the old selinux syscalls).
> Possibly we should
> just make selinux depend on proc and drop the #ifdef
> there.

Alternativly you could move the SELinux specific
bits out of /proc/self/attr into an equivalent
/selinux/self/attr and avoid that /proc dependency.

Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com