Greg KH wrote: >On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:45:44PM -0500, jmjonesat_private wrote: > >>Has anybody written a paper, or a list, or a set of notes that respond to >>the following question, yet? >> >>" >>Since secure-systems are a minority of installed systems, and the LSM code >>works exceptionally well with a common-patch, why should this patch enter >>into the "official" code tree for Linux and not simply track it as a >>shared resource for secure-system developers, developed outside the 'stock >>kernel' tree? >>" >> >"Because Linus said he would accept such a patch." > Thanks. That's much more succinct than what I was thinking :-) We might also add that Linus & Alan are continuing to act like they would accept such a patch, in that they reserved a syscall number for us. 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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