On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Venkat Yekkirala wrote:

> > What we need is a design rationale, some kind of detailed discussion of what
> > the user requirements are and what the plan is for implementing features to
> > meet these requirements.
> 
> The following is not extensive in a formal/theoretical sense, but hopefully
> addresses the need here.

This is great, thanks.  Exactly what was needed and much appreciated.

I think the interaction with secmark as you describe sounds good.

> 3. Patch for ITEM5 has already been done by Eric Paris and is being considered
>   for upstreaming.

This is in Linus' tree now.

> 5. Patch for ITEM7: TCS currently have no plans to design and implement this.
> 

(Datagram labeling)

I guess we'd probably use SCM_SECURITY for this (similar to 
IP_CMSG_PASSEC for receiving the label).

Is this enough support for user API support at the kernel level in terms 
of setting and getting labels?


- James
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James Morris
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