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Message-ID: <20070130102508.GA10526@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:25:08 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Cc:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, jmorris@...ei.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl selinux: Don't look at table->de

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:08:39AM -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> Alternativly you could move the SELinux specific
> bits out of /proc/self/attr into an equivalent
> /selinux/self/attr and avoid that /proc dependency.

Why?  procfs is essential for any kind of fullblown linux system,
and the selinux actually fits into the original procfs intention,
unlike all the other junk we've added over the years.

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