RE: checkpolicy is broken (which is not)

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On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 06:41 +0000, HarryCiao wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> As for removing above "ambiguity between declaration and use", so it
> would be desirable to remove the association between a regular type
> and type attributes in the current type-attribute rule, and shrink it
> to some "type" rule only for type declaration, and request policy
> writers to setup the association explicitly via the typeattribute
> rule. 
> 
> Also we should handle roles in a similar way: use some "role" rule
> solely for role declaration and "attribute_role" rule for role
> attribute declaration, then "roleattribute" rule for setting up their
> associations.
> 
> Is that right?
> 
> Also this would introduce significant change to the original
> type-attribute rule, how would it be easier for the community to
> accept such change?

I'm not asking for any further changes to the language, just explaining
the analogy to the type-related statements.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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