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Enforcement Logic
Need to interrupt normal flow of execution and pass control to enforcement code.
Chose the LSM model – generic security hooks.
1996 "Security" Extension, D. P. Wiggins (X Consortium) served as basis.
Hooks allow interception of arriving protocol requests, resource lookups, and at other points.
X Access Control Extension (XACE) accepted in X11R7.2.