From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757749AbXLLWdf (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:33:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751334AbXLLWd0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:33:26 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51241 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750913AbXLLWdZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:33:25 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <830252.82380.qm@web36604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <830252.82380.qm@web36604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> To: casey@schaufler-ca.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Stephen Smalley , Karl MacMillan , viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2] X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3+cvs; nmh 1.2-20070115cvs; GNU Emacs 23.0.50 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:32:48 +0000 Message-ID: <612.1197498768@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Casey Schaufler wrote: > > This fd selects the > > particular cache context that a particular instance of a running daemon is > > using. > > Yes, but forgive me being slow, I don't see the problem. I mean that it's not particularly sensible to have an auxiliary interface (say a separate /sys/cachefiles file) for setting the cache context as there may be several caches instantiated simply by opening /dev/cachefiles several times and retaining all the file descriptors involved. I meant this as information only. David