Re: A Comment from User Space

From: Valdis.Kletnieksat_private
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 21:21:35 PDT

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    On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 03:29:29 BST, dawat_private (David Wagner)  said:
    > But, in the meantime, I plead: don't mandate it on the rest of us
    > module-writers.  Remember that the general kernel patches are intended
    
    Nope, I wasn't mandating..
    
    > In other words, research on a new, secure interface appears to be outside
    > the scope of this mailing list, under my interpretation of its charter.
    
    Agreed.  I have to admit *NOT* knowing how to make one right now... ;)
    
    > Providing suggestions of security_ops hooks that would be required to
    > support such an interface, on the other hand, appears to be directly in
    > line with the goals of the list, if I can presume to try to guess what
    > the list owners would say.
    
    That's the point that I'm at.  Are there any hooks not already in our
    list, which are arguably/demonstrabily required to implement it?
    
    In other words: "We don't know how to do it this instant, but we *can*
    show that we need a hook at XYZ to do ABC, for it to work".
    
    /Valdis
    
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