From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264193AbTDWSat (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:30:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264196AbTDWSat (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:30:49 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([195.224.96.167]:10252 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264193AbTDWSas (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:42:54 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Stephen Smalley Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Ted Ts'o" , Andreas Gruenbacher , Stephen Tweedie , lkml , lsm Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extended Attributes for Security Modules against 2.5.68 Message-ID: <20030423194254.A5295@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Stephen Smalley , Linus Torvalds , Ted Ts'o , Andreas Gruenbacher , Stephen Tweedie , lkml , lsm References: <1051120322.14761.95.camel@moss-huskers.epoch.ncsc.mil> <20030423191749.A4244@infradead.org> <1051122958.14761.110.camel@moss-huskers.epoch.ncsc.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1051122958.14761.110.camel@moss-huskers.epoch.ncsc.mil>; from sds@epoch.ncsc.mil on Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:35:59PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:35:59PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > The idea of using separate attribute names for each security module was > already discussed at length when I posted the original RFC, and I've > already made the case that this is not desirable. Please see the > earlier discussion. No. It's not acceptable that the same ondisk structure has a different meaning depending on loaded modules. If the xattrs have a different meaning they _must_ have a different name.