Re: [AppArmor 38/45] AppArmor: Module and LSM hooks

[Pavel Machek]

On Wed 2007-05-23 18:16:45, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:14, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Why is this configurable? 
> 
> The maximum length of a pathname is an arbitrary limit: we don't want to 
> allocate arbitrary amounts of of kernel memory for pathnames so we introduce 
> this limit and set it to a reasonable value. In the unlikely case that 
> someone uses insanely long pathnames, this limit can be increased.

vfs does not have configurable pathname limit, and I do not see what
is so special about AA to require this kind of uglyness.

									Pavel
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