Re: Making forward progress

From: Chris Wright (chrisat_private)
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 10:14:51 PDT

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    * Stephen Smalley (sdsat_private) wrote:
    > 
    > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Seth Arnold wrote:
    > 
    > The last section of the overview document for LSM (in
    > Documentation/DocBook/lsm.tmpl) discusses the current state of the
    > capabilities module, why the LSM project has not yet moved the capability
    > fields into the security blobs, and what additional changes to the base
    > kernel would be necessary to move these fields.  The current capabilities
    > module is sufficient to provide the same functionality as the original
    > built-in support with minimal overhead, and it allows for easy stacking
    > with other security modules since it doesn't use the security fields.
    > Hence, I'm satisfied with it.  However, if the kernel developers decide
    > that they want the capability fields moved into the security blobs, I'm ok
    > with that as well.
    
    small reminder, this in in accordance with the original 'spec' linus
    provided.
    
    > > Not on this list, but also important -- higher level documentation. The
    > > SELinux team put together some decent enough high level docs; perhaps
    > > they should be reviewed again with the light of trying to provide more
    > > background/history/context for the project? (It might be the docs are
    > > fine enough as they are. :)
    > 
    > For revisions to the existing lsm.tmpl document, it seems appropriate to
    > keep discussions and patches on this mailing list, since it is integrated
    > into the BitKeeper tree.
    
    i think seth meant "not on the above list of things to do, but..."
    
    -chris
    
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