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RAD — Number of security policies supporteb by PolicyEvaluator arbitrarily large

  • Key: RAD-6
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3253
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: 2AB ( Bob Burt)
  • Summary:

    The number of security policies supported by a PolicyEvaluator could be
    arbitrarily large. Because of this the operation "list_policies" in the
    PolicyEvaluatorAdmin interface might be changed to:

    PolicyNameIter list_policies(in num_ret, in max_iter, out
    PolicyNameList policy_names);

    where max_iter is maximum number of entries held by the iterator, num_ret
    is the maximum number of entries returned in the "out PolicyNameList list"
    argument, and "policy_names" is sequence of PolicyNames having at most
    "num_ret" entries. If the list of policy names has less than "num_ret"
    entries, the iterator will be nil.

    The iterator interface would look like:

    interface PolicyNameIter

    { long how_many(); boolean next_n(in long val, out PolicyNameList policy_names); void destroy(); }

    ;

    Note this technique could be carried to the extreme for all those
    operations that return a PolicyEvaluatorList. However, it seems less likely
    that one would has assigned large numbers of evaluator in the same way one
    might have large numbers of security policies.

  • Reported: RAD 1.0b1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2000 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — RAD 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 23:14 GMT