Re: [patch 6/8] Factor out sysctl pathname code

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From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 1:27 am

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:32:51PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

No point bloating core kernel for selinux mess.  And this whole routine
should rather go away rather than moving it to core code.  While doing
pathname based lookup for the label might work for the limited case
of sysctl where there are no symlinks but is a rather dumb idea in
general.  And reconstructing this path from the sysctl tables is twice
as dumb.
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[patch 6/8] Factor out sysctl pathname code, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu May 29, 4:32 am)
Re: [patch 6/8] Factor out sysctl pathname code, Christoph Hellwig, (Sat May 31, 1:27 am)
Re: [patch 6/8] Factor out sysctl pathname code, Stephen Smalley, (Tue Jun 3, 6:34 am)