Re: [PATCH] Extended Attributes for Security Modules against 2.5.68

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 13:42:54 EST


On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:35:59PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> The idea of using separate attribute names for each security module was
> already discussed at length when I posted the original RFC, and I've
> already made the case that this is not desirable. Please see the
> earlier discussion.

No. It's not acceptable that the same ondisk structure has a different
meaning depending on loaded modules. If the xattrs have a different
meaning they _must_ have a different name.

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