Fwd: SELinux support in Libc

[Shaz <shazalive at gmail dot com>]

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From: Shaz <shazalive@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:44 AM
Subject: Re: SELinux support in Libc
To: selinux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: libc-help@sourceware.org, Masoom Alam <masoom.alam@gmail.com>,
Waqar Afridi <afridi.waqar@gmail.com>, Sanaullah khan
<sanaullahkhan83@gmail.com>




On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Shaz <shazalive@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I was building eglibc and saw selinux support flag in it's configure script. Any idea what this is used for. Some hints and pointers needed.
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>> SELinux works for me without this support as far as I understand but need to get all the goodies that are available. Couln't find anything with a bit of googling!
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> According to Eric it has something to do with nscd. Is nscd part of libc now? Why do we need an object manager here?
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> Glibc's nscd keeps its name service caches in fixed-size files.  These
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> are always mmap'd into the nscd daemon address space.  "persistent" and
> "shared" are both per-name-service options.
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> http://anusf.anu.edu.au/~djh900/nscd.html

http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/NSS_Caching mentions some
concepts but what can be a possible usecase to understand what this
object manager really achieves.

By the way could;nt find relevant eglibc mailing list for this question.

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Shaz




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