Quotes of the week
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.
-- Alan CoxSELinux 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.
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