Re: a question about coming from security_socket_getpeersec ?

From: Yuan Chunyang (cyyuan79@private)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 18:04:22 PDT

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    > Yuan Chunyang wrote:
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    > >    Now if I want to get the security state of own socket security, can I added new hooks as it, such as security_socket_getownsec ?
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    > You can *propose* to add new hooks, but getting them accepted is *very*
    > difficult. Since the transition from Linux 2.5 (development) to 2.6
    > (stable) new hook requests have to be very important to a lot of people
    > in the mainstream Linux kernel development community.
    
    hehe, I can not know the importance of  security_socket_getownsec. And I think it is necessary to add new hook for getting socket own security state.
    Maybe they are also thinking of it  : ) 
    
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