Re: Security through Permissiveness: A Zen Riddle?

From: Greg KH (gregat_private)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2001 - 13:23:30 PDT

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    On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:11:47PM -0400, jmjonesat_private wrote:
    > The disadvantages:
    > 
    > * we'll go to the Kernel Developers with a few lines in our patch
    >   "reserved for future purposes"  of the people interested in other
    >   areas of interest for linux security.  These can be argued as being
    >   "other security interests that will be discussed before implementation." 
    > 
    > * we're wasting a few bytes.
    
    Both of those would kill the acceptance of the patch.
    
    Let's worry about finishing the original task we set out to do, and not
    worry about what happens after that for now.  There's still some big
    hurdles to overcome to achieve that.
    
    
    greg k-h
    
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