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From: "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@tresys.com>
To: Ryan Bradetich <rbradetich@gmail.com>
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: Is the usercanread attribute still needed?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:09:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172502576.19655.11.camel@sgc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e739902b0702240802p709ced8ao2c39bb6cfe105b3b@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 08:02 -0800, Ryan Bradetich wrote:
> I thought I did forward the patch, but it looks like the foward
> stripped the patch :(
> Here is the patch again.

Merged.

> On 2/23/07, Christopher J. PeBenito <cpebenito@tresys.com> wrote:
> > > On 2/20/07, Ryan Bradetich <rbradetich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello Chris,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks much for your reply!
> > > > I have attached an updated patch that leaves the attribute definition
> > > > in the files.te file.
> > > >
> > > > Just out of curiosity, what is the policy for obsoleting these attributes?
> > > > At next policy file rev?
> >
> > It has to stay around for "a reasonable transition time".  Since this is
> > a fairly widely used interface, it'll probably have to stay for a few
> > releases.
> >
> > Please resend the patch to the list.
> >
> > > > On 2/20/07, Christopher J. PeBenito <cpebenito@tresys.com> wrote:
> > > > > Since modules are statically compiled, we can't completely remove the
> > > > > attribute yet, otherwise it might cause some policies to fail to link if
> > > > > it is still required.  However, the typeattribute could be removed from
> > > > > files_config_file().
> >
> > --
> > Chris PeBenito
> > Tresys Technology, LLC
> > (410) 290-1411 x150
> >
> >
-- 
Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
(410) 290-1411 x150


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      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-26 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-19  0:33 Is the usercanread attribute still needed? Ryan Bradetich
2007-02-20 20:44 ` Christopher J. PeBenito
     [not found]   ` <e739902b0702201944t104d6915raff5949c8e579885@mail.gmail.com>
2007-02-21  3:51     ` Ryan Bradetich
2007-02-23 16:33       ` Christopher J. PeBenito
2007-02-24 16:02         ` Ryan Bradetich
2007-02-26 15:09           ` Christopher J. PeBenito [this message]

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