Bug#929063: Moving SELinux check

Jesse Smith jsmith at resonatingmedia.com
Sat May 18 20:14:47 BST 2019


I've looked over the patch and the logic seems straight forward enough.
Philosophically, I can see arguments for doing this (simplify the core
of init, remove a dependency) and against this idea (it adds a new
program to the sysvinit package and start-up process). So from a
philosophical stand point I'm fairly neutral on this new approach.

>From a practical perspective, I'm curious if there is any benefit or
drawback. Is this patch fixing a known bug, does it  significantly
reduce the size of PID 1 in memory? Is there a flaw in libselinux is
known to cause problems if init is linked to it? I'd like to hear some
options on why we might apply this (or not) upstream.

- Jesse




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