Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269495AbUJGGYI (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:24:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269657AbUJGGYI (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:24:08 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:34498 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269495AbUJGGYG (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:24:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:22:08 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: James Morris Cc: serue@us.ibm.com, chrisw@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] lsm: add bsdjail module Message-Id: <20041006232208.505ccacd.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20041007040859.GA17774@escher.cs.wm.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 24 James Morris wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > Because it gives Linux a functionality like FreeBSD's jail and Solaris' > > zones in an unobtrusive manner, without impacting users who don't wish > > to use it (except for the extra security_task_lookup function calls). > > Yes, as an LSM module, it can be configured out. I think it's a good use > of the LSM framework, and may be useful for people migrating to Linux from > legacy Solaris and FreeBSD. Sure, but that's a bit speculative for adding a feature to the mainline kernel. Is there vendor pull for this feature? Do IBM have customers requiring it? "someone might like this" is not a sufficient basis for adding stuff to the kernel, sorry. - 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/