Re: [RFC][PATCH] Coalesce setfiles and restorecon into a single program

[Karl MacMillan <kmacmillan@mentalrootkit.com>]

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 15:19 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> restorecon started life as a much simpler program, but has gradually
> grown to being largely a duplicate of setfiles, only differing in its
> interface and default behaviors.  Meanwhile, people keep adding features
> and options to both programs, leading to inconsistencies.
> 
> This patch coalesces setfiles and restorecon into a single program
> presenting different interfaces and default behaviors depending on
> basename(argv[0]), making restorecon a symlink to setfiles.
> 
> Unresolved issue: Current policy defines separate domains for the two
> programs.  We need to either coalesce the domains as well, or if there
> is legitimate reason for separating them, restorecon could remain a
> separate binary (either a complete separate copy or a wrapper) even if
> the sources are coalesced.
> 
> Comments?
> 

This and the bug fix patch were merged into trunk and policyrep.

Karl


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