David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just curious--why? Are get_kernel_security(), etc., particularly > > expensive? > > It involves a kmalloc(). That means an extra possibility for an error. Plus > it may allow you to cache the result of checking whether, say, SELinux > security labels are allowed to be set when passed over NFS (if such is > possible).
Apart from that, though, no, it's not particularly expensive. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
