Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/11] security: AppArmor - Overview

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:32:43AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > you must have a good defense against that argument, so I'm curious to
> > hear what it is
> 
> [I'm not from the apparmor people but my understanding is]
> 
> Usually they claimed name spaces as the reason it couldn't work.
> 
> In practice AFAIK basically nobody uses name spaces for
> anything.

That;s mostly because we were missing feature to actually make them
usable.  One of them was the shared subtree works which now is in
and will be used in practice by things like clearcase.  The second big
thing we're missing is support to call mount() without addition privilegues.

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