Re: [PATCH 00/16] Permit filesystem local caching [try #3]

From: Casey Schaufler
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 11:53:55 EST



--- David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > With Smack you can leave the label alone, raise CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE,
> > do your business of setting the label correctly, and then drop
> > the capability. No new hooks required.
>
> That sounds like a contradiction. How can you both leave it alone and set
> it?

Whoops, sorry. You leave the process label alone and explicitly
set the file label using the xattr interfaces.


Casey Schaufler
casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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