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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:45:16AM -0500, Stephen D. Smalley wrote:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104316038729345&w=2 and
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-security-module&m=104316278400987&w=2.
> At most, a field might be added to the ctl_table structure so that the kernel
> can provide a hint to security modules as to its view of the sensitivity of
> a given sysctl variable, but this does not require any change to the sysctl
> hook interface.

Of course that needs further changes!

(a) actually implement that field, and
(b) change the prototype of the hook to int (*sysctl)(int op, enum sensitivity);

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