New hooks for sock structure

From: Wayne Salamon (wsalamonat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 08:00:13 PDT

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      I am proposing a set of hooks to allow client security information to be
reliably associated with a new socket connection. The security structure
is attached to the sock, and can be used to store information about the
client when a new connection is created. This information can then be
propagated to user space via the socket structure.

  SELinux uses these hooks to provide the security ID of the connecting
client to the server via the extended socket calls. The patch files
include the necessary SELinux changes.

  Comments?

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Wayne Salamon
wsalamonat_private
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