Re: [ANNOUNCE][PATCH] New fs to control access to system resources

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:51:06PM +0100, Andreas Ferber wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:01:11PM +0100, Olaf Dietsche wrote:
> > 
> > this is a new file system to control access to system resources.
> > Currently it controls access to inet_bind() with ports < 1024 only.
> 
> Just some minor notes from reading the source and docs:
> 
> - It somewhat collides with the Linux Security Module project
>   (http://lsm.immunix.org/).

I don't see this conflicting with what the lsm patch does (with the
minor exception of removing the capable() call.)  How do you see a
conflict here?

This patch looks nice, I like it.

Yet another reason why we should have a bunch of the ramfs functions
exported for the rest of the kernel to use :)

thanks,

greg k-h