Greg KH wrote: >On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:46:07AM -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote: > >>This looks like Richard trying to make the hook authoritative. It was >>widely agreed at the August BOF that we would switch to authoritative >>hooks if SGI could overcome a few obstacles. >> > >I thought the proposal was "authorative if not specifically for audit". > No. It was "authoritative if not too painful." There are cases where truly authoritative is painful, because the in-kernel logic short circiuts waaay early. So it's "kinda authoritative as long as it doesn't proliferate hooks". Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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