MAC and hierarchical directory structure

[James E. Pace]

On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Ilmar S. Habibulin wrote:

> So this makes imposiible propper use of /tmp and other same
> directories.

HP-UX TOS (and others) make /tmp a multilevel directory.  There is an
instace of the directory at every MAC label.  That is, there is a
syslo /tmp, a syshi /tmp, and an everything in between /tmp.

A process (transparently) uses the one that is appropriate to its level.

-James

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