Re: Making forward progress

From: jmjonesat_private
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 11:30:53 PDT

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    On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Stephen Smalley wrote:
    
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    > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Crispin Cowan wrote:
    > 
    > > Not yet.  I'm still waiting to hear whether the promised advantages are real or
    > > not.  In particular, I want to know whether Smalley's style of authoritative hooks
    > > (DAC-in, DAC-first, send DAC result to module as a parameter, and let the module
    > > make the final decision) actually improves SGI's situation.  Richard?
    > 
    > Actually, I think that original credit for the authoritative hook idea
    > goes to David Wagner.  I just tried implementing it for many of the
    > LSM hooks back in June.
    
    
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    > Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
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    > 
    
    Possibly true.  I give credit to you and your team for providing the first
    "hard" implementation.  If you didn't think this was reasonable, I also
    wonder... "why bother?"
    
    J. Melvin Jones
    
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