Re: task_post_setgid ?

From: Chris Wright (chrisw@private)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 15:32:06 PST


* Chandra Seetharaman (sekharan@private) wrote:
> Thanks for your reply... you might remember me from a previous discussion we
> had in the context of CKRM(ckrm.sf.net).

Yes I do, hi ;-)

> For our classification engine we need to have callbacks from various kernel
> points. I am looking at the possiblity of using LSM for that purpose(instead
> of adding our own callbacks). 

Interesting.  How is this going?

> post_setgid is one of the places where LSM doesn't have hooks for, that is
> why I am interested in post_setgid.

I see.

> Apart from that, from a semantic point of view also it will be clean to have
> a post_setgid(analogous to post_setuid).

Indeed.  However, we've intended to keep hooks which are used by
somebody, so without users this one never surfaced.  Have a patch?

thanks,
-chris
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