Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:45:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:45:30 -0400 Received: from sentry.gw.tislabs.com ([192.94.214.100]:35306 "EHLO sentry.gw.tislabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:45:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:51:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Smalley X-X-Sender: To: Christoph Hellwig cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Russell Coker , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove sys_security In-Reply-To: <20021023173635.A15896@infradead.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 25 On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Why are you limited to a single fs? xfs and jfs have xattr support > out of the box (in 2.4 only jfs is actually in the mainline tree, though) Most of our users (and we) happen to use ext[23], so there isn't any point in migrating SELinux to using EAs until EA implementations are merged into those filesystems. Also, the EA API lacks support for creating files with specified security attributes (as opposed to creating and then calling setxattr to change the attributes, possibly after someone has already obtained access to the file), so it isn't ideal for our purposes anyway. -- Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs ssmalley@nai.com - 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/