Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, [email protected] wrote:

> on the contrary, useing 'mv' is by far the cleanest way to do this.
> 
> mv htdocs htdocs.old;mv htdocs.new htdocs
> 
> this makes two atomic changes to the filesystem, but can generate thousands to
> millions of permission changes as a result.

OTOH, you've performed your labeling up front, and don't have to 
effectively relabel each file each time on each access, which is what 
you're really doing with pathname labeling.



- James
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