On 31 May 2001, David Wagner wrote: > One disadvantage is that then each module writer has to cut-and-paste > the old code into his module if he wants to stick with the base logic > (and we can expect this to be common). Moreover, if for any reason the > linux kernel developers ever need to change the base logic (e.g., someone > found a bug), they'd then need to change the code in every LSM, which > is probably impossible in practice. It seems that we should be able to address this problem by providing support for composing security modules with the dummy functions. I would also expect that we would want to allow for the easy composition of the capabilities plug with other security modules. -- Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs ssmalleyat_private _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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