On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:51, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> There are
> also recently added new syscalls to help reduce races in walking the
> file tree (i.e. openat and friends) - possibly there should be some for
> lsetxattr as well so that lsetfileconat() could be implemented?

Yes, I think a lsetxattrat() syscall is necessary, and I agree that we need better code to deal with race conditions in the library.

Incidentally it's the first time I've heard of coreutils being cited as a good example in this regard.

-- 
http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/   My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages
http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/  Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark
http://www.coker.com.au/postal/    Postal SMTP/POP benchmark
http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/  My home page

--
This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list.
If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with
the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.