From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752657AbXA3KZj (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:25:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752661AbXA3KZj (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:25:39 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:44156 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752657AbXA3KZh (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:25:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:25:08 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Casey Schaufler Cc: Stephen Smalley , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, jmorris@namei.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl selinux: Don't look at table->de Message-ID: <20070130102508.GA10526@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Casey Schaufler , Stephen Smalley , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, jmorris@namei.org References: <1170096231.8720.102.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <493253.19989.qm@web36606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <493253.19989.qm@web36606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:08:39AM -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote: > Alternativly you could move the SELinux specific > bits out of /proc/self/attr into an equivalent > /selinux/self/attr and avoid that /proc dependency. Why? procfs is essential for any kind of fullblown linux system, and the selinux actually fits into the original procfs intention, unlike all the other junk we've added over the years.