Fedora and udev

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Tue Aug 24 11:50:51 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 05:28, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>  if the file_contexts stuff was somehow pre-munged and
>  transferred into kernel, and the regexp matching code (or
>  something similar) was _also_ transferred into the kernel,
>  then this problem would go away.

Bad idea.  The kernel only deals with file contexts via attributes on
inodes that are set by some userspace entity; it does not deal with the
file contexts configuration, nor should it.

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Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency




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