linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 8/8] kdbus: Ability to run kdbus test by executable binary name

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Message-id: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1507081658000.23362@AMDC1262.digital.local>
Date:	Wed, 08 Jul 2015 16:58:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Paul Osmialowski <p.osmialowsk@...sung.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@...el.com>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...glemail.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	Karol Lewandowski <k.lewandowsk@...sung.com>,
	Lukasz Skalski <l.skalski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 8/8] kdbus: Ability to run kdbus test by executable binary
 name

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your comments,

On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

>
> Why not create symlinks automatically so this works without having to
> manually run 'cp'?

It can be anything on which one can apply security label. Symlinks can do.

> But really, is spelling out the command line option
> really a big issue?

Maybe. I couldn't think about any easier (and easy to present) use case 
that could explain the purpose of this change.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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