[PATCH 00/16] Permit filesystem local caching [try #3]

Casey Schaufler casey at schaufler-ca.com
Tue Aug 14 11:53:39 EDT 2007


--- David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:

> Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
> 
> > With Smack you can leave the label alone, raise CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE,
> > do your business of setting the label correctly, and then drop
> > the capability. No new hooks required.
> 
> That sounds like a contradiction.  How can you both leave it alone and set
> it?

Whoops, sorry. You leave the process label alone and explicitly
set the file label using the xattr interfaces.


Casey Schaufler
casey at schaufler-ca.com


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