From: domg472@gmail.com (Dominick Grift)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:57:56 +0200
Subject: [refpolicy] kernel_filesystem.patch
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 08:49:09AM -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 09:41 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> > On 06/04/2010 09:34 AM, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 16:23 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> > >> http://people.fedoraproject.org/~dwalsh/SELinux/F14/kernel_filesystem.patch
> > >>
> > >> Changes for /cgroup policy
> > >
> > > While moving the labeling of cgroup from kernel to filesystem modules
> > > may make sense, I'm not sure why the type and interfaces need to be
> > > renamed.
> > >
> > Well it is a file system?
> 
> Thats not necessarily a good reason, since other pseudo filesystems
> exist in other modules, for good reason.  It also doesn't explain the
> renaming.

the libcgroup suite was one of the reasons to rename. libcgroup which automates cgroup management installs the /cgroup mountpoint. whilst that directories content is the cgroup pseudo filesystem. So we needed two types for almost the same purpose. So we choose cgroup_t for libcgroups /cgroup mountpoint and we decided to rename the cgroupfs pseudo fs cgroupfs

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