Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> How should TOMOYO implement it's "match one character" in a pattern
> (used to allow or deny access in a name-based MAC)?

.. I think such a design is fundamentally bogus. You don't have 
"characters". You have "bytes".

So you either implement "match one byte", or you go crazy. It's that 
simple.

		Linus
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