Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security
Date: 2009-12-05 13:18:13
Message-ID: 200912051318.nB5DIDj13784@momjian.us
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Robert Haas wrote:
> > I offered to review it. ?I was going to mostly review the parts that
> > impacted our existing code, and I wasn't going to be able to do a
> > thorough job of the SE-Linux-specific files.
>
> Review it and commit it, after making whatever modifications are
> necessary? Or review it in part, leaving the final review and commit
> to someone else?
>
> I just read through the latest version of this patch and it does
> appear to be in significantly better shape than the versions I read
> back in July. So it might not require a Herculean feat of strength to
> get this in, but I still think it's going to be a big job. There's a
> lot of code here that needs to be verified and in some cases probably
> cleaned up or restructured. If you're prepared to take it on, I'm not
> going to speak against that, other than to say that I think you have
> your work cut out for you.

This is no harder than many of the other seemingly crazy things I have
done, e.g. Win32 port, client library threading. If this is a feature
we should have, I will get it done or get others to help me complete the
task.

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