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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:51:34 -0800
From: John Johansen <jrjohansen@verizon.net>
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To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/12] AppArmor: userspace interfaces
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Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:13 PM, John Johansen
> <john.johansen@canonical.com> wrote:
>> The current apparmorfs interface is compatible with previous versions
>> of AppArmor.  The plans are to deprecate it (hence the config option
>> APPARMOR_COMPAT_24) and replace it with a more sysfs style single
>> entry per file interface.
> 
> We don't usually merge compatibility code to handle ABIs that were
> developed out-of-tree. Why should we treat AppArmor differently?
> 
Not necessarily saying you should.  We would certainly like to support the
current interface as it will be a pain for our users if newer kernels break
abi so the user space tools don't work.  And there is also that the compat
interface  is the only interface currently supported.  The goal was to
declare our intent to deprecate the interface and move to a new
interface interface in time.

cheers
john
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