linux-kernel - Re: Upstream first policy

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Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2010 06:58:44 -0800
From:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Upstream first policy

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 00:46, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
> selinux relabels are the new fsck.
>
> maybe we need selinux3 or chunk-selinux.

Once the fanotify stuff is in (or however it'll be called) the new
relabel process could temporarily install itself to intercept all
filesystem operations and fix up files on demand while going along
it's normal operation in the background.  No reason to stall the
system completely.

If this is the biggest complaint then you should be supportive of the approach.
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