This patch changes the way of how the client-selected sub directory is
communicated to the server. The former opaque session argument is now
passed as last label element, which allows for the flexible tweaking
of this argument by init's session-routing and label-rewriting
mechansims. In particular, it alleviates the need for creating chroot
component instances.
This change requires the following four adaptations at the
configuration level:
- Each file-system session request must now carry a path starting
with / as last session arguments. Hence, <vfs> <fs> nodes that
feature a 'label' attributes must extend the attribute value
with " -> /". For <fs> nodes with no label attribute, "/" is
used as last label argument by default.
- For matching session-routing rules at init's configuration,
the matching of full labels should be replaced by 'label_prefix'
matches, excluding the last (path) argument.
- Wherever a label of a file-system session is rewritten by using
init's 'label' attribute of a <parent> or <child> target node,
the new attribute 'identity' should be used instead. This replaces
the identity part of the label while preserving the client's
directory argument.
- Analogously to the matching of session-routing rules, server-side
policy-selection rules that formerly matched a concrete 'label'
must be changed to match a 'label_prefix' instead.
As a good practice, 'label_prefix' values should end with " ->" if
possible, which clearly delimits the identity part of the label
used by the matching.
Issue #5445
Enable watching files via the inotify interface of the Linux Kernel.
Delivery of watches to components is staggered in order to prevent an
overflow of the ACK queue in cases when a lot of changes are made to the
file system from the Linux side.
Fixes#4070
