--- Stephen Smalley <sds(a)tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
 The structure could just define the length and perms
 fields, then put a
 char buf[0]; at the end to allow referencing of
 watch->buf, and just
 include the two strings immediately after the
 structure when creating
 it.  Kernel can then extract them appropriately
 based on the lengths.
 No need to reserve fixed size fields for them. 
That would require two copyins, one to get the
lengths and another to get the "buf". Not that
that's necessarily a stopper, but I had assumed
the goal was a one-shot interface.
Casey Schaufler
casey(a)schaufler-ca.com
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