Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:01:18 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] LSM changes for 2.5.38 |
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:55:56AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > For cases like the module_* hooks, and the other examples you pointed > out, I agree. > > For other cases, capable() is just not fine grained enough to actually > know what is going on (like CAP_SYS_ADMIN). In those cases you need an > extra hook to determine where in the kernel you are.
Either we make capable fine grained enough (64 or 128bit capability vectors, I have some old code for that around and I know SGI used that more than a year ago) or we replace the capable in those cases with hooks entirely.
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