I'm curious what kinds of per-app compatibility issues have occurred?

Android recently deprecated Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE and 
MODE_WORLD_WRITABLE, which could help in making an argument that they really 
don't want apps to be able to access the internal storage directories of other 
apps?
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#MODE_WORLD_READABLE

I did run into an app that shares world readable (and encrypted) files in its 
internal storage directory with other apps -- that would be one example of a 
compatibility issue.  (I'd argue that they should use a Content Provider 
instead.)

Thanks,
Mike

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-seandroid-
>[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Smalley
>Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:51 AM
>To: William Roberts
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: multi user support
>
>On 01/08/2013 09:23 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> On 01/07/2013 09:53 PM, William Roberts wrote:
>>> Just wondering what the status of multi user support for tablets with
>>> SEAndroid is, is Manta there yet?
>>
>> We do have support for correct labeling of secondary user app data
>> directories in our branches and uploaded to AOSP as:
>> https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/44530/
>>
>> Not sure if that is what you are asking though.
>
>One thing that we haven't explored yet is leveraging the new
>levelFrom=user support in seapp_contexts.  That will require changes not
>only to seapp_contexts but also to the rest of the policy to reflect the
>change in how we are applying the MLS model, from a per-app basis to a
>per-user basis.  It should be significantly simpler and more compatible
>than doing it on a per-app basis.
>
>
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