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List:       selinux
Subject:    Re: [POLICYREP] [RFC/PATCH 2/3] policy package implementation
From:       "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito () tresys ! com>
Date:       2007-07-18 12:32:46
Message-ID: 1184761966.10118.14.camel () gorn ! columbia ! tresys ! com
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On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 17:11 -0400, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 17:01 -0400, Joshua Brindle wrote:
> > Karl MacMillan wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > It doesn't seem reasonable to essentially reproduce the m4 preprocessing 
> > statements just to keep a single parser. just look at a preprocessed 
> > module and see how nasty it looks:
> > 
> > #line 156537 "tmp/all_interfaces.conf"
> >        
> > #line 1 "policy/modules/services/sendmail.te"
> > 
> >        
> > #line 2
> >       
> > #line 2
> >                 module sendmail 1.3.1;
> > #line 2
> > 
> > #line 2
> >                 require {
> > #line 2
> >                         role system_r;
> > #line 2
> > 
> 
> 1) so what?
> 2) it doesn't have to be that ugly - the repeated line number thing is
> an artifact of M4.

The line number and file name comments are optional in M4 and only
turned on (via M4's -s option) since the current compiler can leverage
them for the file name and line number in error messages.

-- 
Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
(410) 290-1411 x150


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