Re: Reasons for Inclusion

From: Crispin Cowan (crispinat_private)
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 13:11:17 PST

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    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
    
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