Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934410AbXK3Bsj (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:48:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763793AbXK3Bs0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:48:26 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:49784 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763761AbXK3BsZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:48:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:48:11 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Justin Banks Cc: Alan Cox , Jon Masters , Ray Lee , tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com, Casey Schaufler , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: Out of tree module using LSM Message-ID: <20071130014811.GA8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <1196365551.6473.103.camel@perihelion> <20071129214527.1d62056c@the-village.bc.nu> <20071129221238.GF5601@bleen.corp.bb> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071129221238.GF5601@bleen.corp.bb> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 18 On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:12:38PM -0700, Justin Banks wrote: > It's not perfect, but as was recently pointed out, if you can only get > 98% of the way there rather than 100% is that a reason for not trying to > make it possible? BTW, that's a fine example of a common fallacy: "$FOO is 98% of the way to $TARGET" does not allow to interpolate the properties of $TARGET to those of $FOO. Telling that a condom is a 98% approximation to platonic ideal of such is not particulary useful, especially if it turns out that what this number really means is that there's a hole on its tip covering 2% of surface... - 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/