From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758971AbXEWQRU (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 12:17:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764457AbXEWQQ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 12:16:59 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:50787 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764190AbXEWQQ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 12:16:57 -0400 From: Andreas Gruenbacher Organization: SUSE Labs, Novell To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [AppArmor 38/45] AppArmor: Module and LSM hooks Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:16:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: jjohansen@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070514110607.549397248@suse.de> <20070514110621.316630438@suse.de> <20070515091443.GD6816@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070515091443.GD6816@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705231816.46197.agruen@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:14, Pavel Machek wrote: > Why is this configurable? The maximum length of a pathname is an arbitrary limit: we don't want to allocate arbitrary amounts of of kernel memory for pathnames so we introduce this limit and set it to a reasonable value. In the unlikely case that someone uses insanely long pathnames, this limit can be increased. Andreas