begin  quoting Martin B?hr as of Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:47:30PM +0200:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:29:38AM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> > Why should applications be aware of SE Linux? I don't like the idea of
> > applications changing behavior to adapt to my security policies... they
> > should complain with useful error messages when denied access to a resource,
> > and degrade gracefully.
> 
> how can an application give a useful errormessage if it is not aware of
> SE Linux? any errormessage other than: "access to resource denied by
> security policy" will likely be wrong or missleading and not really helpful.

How about "Access to resource $name denied with error code $errno" ?

-Stewart "Some resource was not available for an undisclosed reason." Stremler

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