Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:37:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:37:06 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:16564 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:37:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove sys_security From: Alan Cox To: Greg KH Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-security-module@wirex.com In-Reply-To: <20021017201030.GA384@kroah.com> References: <20021017195015.A4747@infradead.org> <20021017185352.GA32537@kroah.com> <20021017195838.A5325@infradead.org> <20021017190723.GB32537@kroah.com> <20021017210402.A7741@infradead.org> <20021017201030.GA384@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 21 Oct 2002 14:57:23 +0100 Message-Id: <1035208643.27309.109.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 15 On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 21:10, Greg KH wrote: > Ok, I think it's time for someone who actually cares about the security > syscall to step up here to try to defend the existing interface. I'm > pretty sure Ericsson, HP, SELinux, and WireX all use this, so they need > to be the ones defending it. The existing interface is basically the one Linus asked for, although perhaps with a little less thought on the structure side than it would have benefitted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/