Re: [RFC] LSM changes for 2.5.38

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:55:56AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> For cases like the module_* hooks, and the other examples you pointed
> out, I agree.
> 
> For other cases, capable() is just not fine grained enough to actually
> know what is going on (like CAP_SYS_ADMIN).  In those cases you need an
> extra hook to determine where in the kernel you are.

Either we make capable fine grained enough (64 or 128bit capability
vectors, I have some old code for that around and I know SGI used that
more than a year ago) or we replace the capable in those cases with hooks
entirely.