Re: [PATCH][LSM] Early init for security modules and various cleanups

From: Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 11:33:57 EST

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* Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com) wrote:
> Chris Wright <chris@wirex.com> wrote:
> >
> > security_capable() returns 0 if that capability bit is set.
>
> That's just bizarre. Is there any logic behind it?

Yes, as Stephen pointed out, it's common for the security interface to
return 0 on success on -errno on failure.

cheers,
-chris

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