Re: [PATCH] Add in_execve flag into task_struct.

[James Morris]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, David Howells wrote:

> Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > It's ugly, you can't get me to say it isn't ugly :), and it sets a scary
> > bad precedent.  But if David insists (in a reply to this msg) that this
> > flag really is tops, then just ignore me.  Anyway my point wasn't to
> > block the patch but to raise discussion (so someone else could decide to
> > block it :) on both the flag and security implications of these
> > semantics.
> 
> I think it's probably the best way to support Tomoyo's security model without
> reworking a chunk of execve().

Agreed.  It's somewhat less than perfect, but I don't see a better 
alternative.


- James
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James Morris
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