[rsbac] syscall wrapper (was 1.1.2 and 2.4.18)

[Amon Ott]

On Tuesday, 12. March 2002 21:54, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Reimplementing the RSBAC calls using the generic security call number and
> API can be viewed separately from the issue of porting RSBAC to LSM.  Even
> if you never port to LSM, multiplexing your calls through a single call
> that uses the __NR_security syscall number protects you against future
> conflicts.  And, if you later port to LSM, using that number and using
> the LSM-defined API for the call will ensure compatibility across the LSM
> port.

If have just finished the syscall wrapper on syscall NR_security and it seems 
to work as expected under 2.2.20 and 2.4.18. This will hopefully avoid 
further conflicts in this area.

I have no idea how much it will influence performance, but RSBAC syscalls are 
not used too often anyway.

Amon.
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