--- 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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