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A person will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with their mouth open before a roast duck will fly in.
-- James Morris

For the purposes of figuring out what is needed you can consider a random simple user case such as a system which protects you against the works of Eric S Raymond. Replace the mathematical analysis and heuristics with a user space tool which spots the various ESR papers and design it for that if it makes you happier.

SELinux seems to be able to do most of the lifting around the problem as it can relabel a file into eric_t and constrain further access to it.

-- Alan Cox
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Posted Dec 6, 2007 13:10 UTC (Thu) by jamesm (guest, #2273) [Link]

Just to clarify, that is an old proverb, possibly Chinese or Spanish.

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Posted Dec 6, 2007 16:41 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Yes, surprisingly both the Chinese and Spanish have been wary of ESR much longer 
than the English-speaking world.

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Posted Dec 6, 2007 17:37 UTC (Thu) by xav (guest, #18536) [Link]

And they pretty much knew their way around SELinux.

Old proverb

Posted Dec 24, 2007 23:45 UTC (Mon) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link]

The full quote from Mr. Morris was:
"A person will stand on the top of a hill for a very long time with their mouth open before a roast duck will fly in"
Note the quotation marks. He really wasn't trying to claim it was original with him. :-)

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Posted Jan 7, 2008 12:53 UTC (Mon) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

This site claims it was Confucius..

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Posted Dec 12, 2007 13:37 UTC (Wed) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]

Contrasting ESR and malware, who'd have thought?

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