Re: [refpolicy3 RFC] Drop suffixes?

Russell Coker <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Mar 2023 20:15:48 +1100
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.selinux-refpolicy
Message-ID <4896093.0VBMTVartN@xev>
On Saturday, 25 March 2023 05:10:10 AEDT Chris PeBenito wrote:
> I am considering dropping the suffixes from users, roles, and types.
> init_t would become init, user_r would become user, etc.

Even when the syntax prevents the compiler from being confused there is a 
benefit to avoiding user confusion.  So having user_r:user_t change to 
user:user would be bad IMHO.

22 years ago this might have been justified by reducing RAM use or something 
but that doesn't apply now.  What's the motivation for this?

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