Re: /proc woes

[Tom <tom@lemuria.org>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:43:12PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > Rebooting the machine fixed it, so this may have happened during either
> > make relabel or make load (I installed a new policy today), though it's
> > still a mystery to me how and I'm one of the people who believe that a
> > reboot shouldn't be a valid solution. :)
> 
> I can't see any reason why a 'make relabel' or a 'make load' would yield
> this behavior.  'make relabel' only runs setfiles on mounted ext[23] or
> reiserfs filesystems to create or update the persistent label mappings.
> 'make load' doesn't relabel anything, although it might invalidate
> security contexts if you removed types (like proc_t), leaving existing
> objects in unlabeled_t (but not file_t).

Well, I *am* somewhat puzzled myself, but I've seen it happen. I will
experiment a little tomorrow afternoon to see if I can recreate it
(probably by replaying the bash history) and find out what caused this.


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