Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:10:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:10:13 -0500 Received: from 12-224-37-81.client.attbi.com ([12.224.37.81]:44562 "HELO kroah.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:10:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:06:21 -0800 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][PATCH] New fs to control access to system resources Message-ID: <20020116230620.GE3410@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <87k7uj61tk.fsf@tigram.bogus.local> <20020116195105.C18039@devcon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020116195105.C18039@devcon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.20 (i586) Reply-By: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:02:44 -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:51:06PM +0100, Andreas Ferber wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:01:11PM +0100, Olaf Dietsche wrote: > > > > this is a new file system to control access to system resources. > > Currently it controls access to inet_bind() with ports < 1024 only. > > Just some minor notes from reading the source and docs: > > - It somewhat collides with the Linux Security Module project > (http://lsm.immunix.org/). I don't see this conflicting with what the lsm patch does (with the minor exception of removing the capable() call.) How do you see a conflict here? This patch looks nice, I like it. Yet another reason why we should have a bunch of the ramfs functions exported for the rest of the kernel to use :) thanks, greg k-h - 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/