Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:41:01 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching |
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:
> on the contrary, useing 'mv' is by far the cleanest way to do this. > > mv htdocs htdocs.old;mv htdocs.new htdocs > > this makes two atomic changes to the filesystem, but can generate thousands to > millions of permission changes as a result.
OTOH, you've performed your labeling up front, and don't have to effectively relabel each file each time on each access, which is what you're really doing with pathname labeling.
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