linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

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Message-ID: <20070822080533.GA2482@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:05:33 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Cc:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel


> > but you written it in wrong language. You
> > written it in C, while you should have written it in SELinux policy
> > language (and your favourite scripting language as frontend).
> 
> I have often marvelled at the notion of a simplification layer.
> I believe that you build complex things on top of simple things,
> not the other way around.

As we have to maintain selinux, anyway, I don't see why simplification
layer is a problem.
								Pavel

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