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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 17:40:15 -0800 (PST) From: Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com> To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@...hat.com> Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, casey@...aufler-ca.com, viro@....linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org, Trond.Myklebust@...app.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] KEYS: Add keyctl function to get a security label --- David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote: > Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov> wrote: > > > inode_getsecurity and getprocattr directly return the strings. > > Admittedly, the whole interface could be cleaned up and made far more > > consistent, but I don't think he necessarily has to go through the > > getsecid + secid_to_secctx sequence if he only wants the secctx. > > It's what Daniel Walsh wanted. Name dropper. And we don't have a convention, really. So go ahead with key_getsecurity or key_getsecctx, as you choose. At some point we should either change inode_getsecurity to inode_getsecctx or secid_to_secctx to secid_to_security. Not the problem of the day. Casey Schaufler casey@...aufler-ca.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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