Re: [PATCH] IPC_SET_PERM cleanup
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 16:46, Linda Knippers wrote:
> The original patches by Dustin and Linda had used
"new_iuid=501" to
> differentiate the values, which I personally think was fine since it's
> unlikely that people want to be searching for those.
And if they do, they're easy to find with an ausearch | grep.
This is at the wrong level. There may be people that are writing programs that
want any ouid. I want to stop the proliferation of field names and follow a
convention. Forget whether or not you think people will ever want the
information. We need a convention and then to follow it.
> If you absolutely want to avoid adding new tag names, an
alternative
> would be to get rid of the "new " modifiers, and use the "type="
name to
> differentiate them.
I don't want a proliferation of type names either. I think we have a lot of
them and should try to use existing ones where possible.
-Steve