[redhat-lspp] Number of level & compartments

George Wilson ltcgcw at us.ibm.com
Tue Sep 20 04:56:09 UTC 2005


On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 06:00:33PM -0400, Chad Hanson wrote:
> 
> The compartments are specified by the internal ebitmap which can support a
> dynamic number of categories. The number of hierarchies are limited to the
> size of unsigned int (u32. Neither of these should be a problem.
> 
> -Chad
> 
> > 
> > On Monday 19 September 2005 17:29, James Morris wrote:
> > > We can have as many as we want, it's specified via policy (current
> > > defaults are ten levels and 128 categories).
> > 
> > OK. I just wanted to make sure there weren't inherent 
> > limitations by design.
> > 
> > -Steve
> > 

So has a huge set of compartments ever been tested?  If not, it might be
worthwhile to make sure nothing breaks.

-- 
George Wilson <ltcgcw at us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center




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