linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] security: TOMOYO should clean policy files

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Message-Id: <201202152136.BCD65110.OQOOHFSLFFVMJt@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date:	Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:36:18 +0900
From:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:	rdunlap@...otime.net
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, takedakn@...data.co.jp,
	tomoyo-dev-en@...ts.sourceforge.jp, jmorris@...ei.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: TOMOYO should clean policy files

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> TOMOYO creates some empty/default policy files during build.
> It should remove them during 'make clean'.
> 
> I noticed that they were not being removed because the
> "Creating ..." messages always occurred a maximum of one time
> during 25 randconfig builds, so it was sometimes using the
> files from a previous build (which is not a problem, but
> still, 'make clean' should remove them).

Thank you. But I prefer current behavior.

The content of automatically generated files depends on neither kernel config
nor architecture. They are static contents which are used when a user did not
explicitly supply contents. Therefore, I think we don't need to delete them by
'make clean'.
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