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@@ -696,6 +696,11 @@ sockets.
A privileged program may set this to match the label of another
task with which it hopes to communicate.
+UNIX domain socket (UDS) with a BSD address functions both as a file in a
+filesystem and as a socket. As a file, it carries the SMACK64 attribute. This
+attribute is not involved in Smack security enforcement and is immutably
+assigned the label "*".
+
Smack Netlabel Exceptions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~