Re: extended file permissions based on LSM

From: Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Date: Sat Aug 31 2002 - 19:26:56 EST

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* Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de) wrote:
>
> So this is a correctly pointed out design weakness: The way the
> user took to reach the inode cannot be taken into account.

Yes, this is known, and there are anticipated VFS changes to remedy
this.

thanks,
-chris

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