Re: Understanding ACI

From: Jörgen Sigvardsson <jorgen.sigvardsson@kau.se>
Subject: Re: Understanding ACI
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:57:52 +0100

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On Monday 19 February 2001 18:13, you wrote:
> Just have a closer look into auth and acl data structures. Don't get
> offended by the number of lists in there, there is a lot of copy, paste and
> edit.
I'm a teacher, I have graded labs, I don't get easily offended ;-)

However I would like to make a suggestion regarding the lists.. maybe an 
abstraction of the lists would be in order? It would be nice if all list 
functionality was separated from the rest of the code. I think that the level 
of security is somewhat raised by such a move as well. Or maybe I should say 
the confidence of security. Chain of reasoning: Less code -> lesser 
likelyhood of bugs -> higher confidence.

I have seen that there is a list type in the mainstream kernel and a couple 
of macros/functions for it, so I don't think there is more effort to it than 
"rewriting" stuff.

I'm aware that this kind of work is probably not on the top of your 
todo-list. But perhaps this would be appropriate for the next major? I'd be 
willing to "convert" code. Am I being a nitpick now? :)

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Jörgen Sigvardsson, B. Sc.
Lecturer, Computer Science Dept. Karlstad University
Tel: +46-(0)54-700 1786
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