sample 5.3 based trusted os ;-)

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Martin Englund wrote:

> rwatson at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> 
> > I don't suppose Sun would be interested in posting open source API and
> > file format validation tools?
> >
> I'll ask the powers that be, but don't hold your breath :)

I figured that doing so would probably be unwise :-). 

Since we have your ear -- one of the ongoing concerns in the FreeBSD port
of the Darwin audit parts has been the reliable generation of path names
for file operations.  Path names seem like an unreliable thing at the best
of times on most UNIX systems -- files with 0, 1, or more names, covered
mount points, hard links, non-canonical names, etc.  How hard does Solaris
try to generate "reliable" path names, and are the caveats and design
choices in path name generation for Audit currently publically documented
somewhere?  Find "a name" is typically fairly straight forward, but
presumably the real value in a path name is how consistently available and
useful it is for post-processing -- knowing what applications consuming
BSM audit streams expect would be very helpful in knowing just how hard to
make the FreeBSD kernel try to generate a useful name.

Thanks!

Robert N M Watson


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