From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzdrum.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id iB8JasIi007838 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:36:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from web50208.mail.yahoo.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by jazzdrum.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id iB8Jauu3001037 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 19:36:57 GMT Message-ID: <20041208193658.89005.qmail@web50208.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:36:58 -0800 (PST) From: Casey Schaufler Subject: Re: getfilecon() and friends in libselinux To: Stephen Smalley , Joshua Brindle Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov In-Reply-To: <1102526433.26951.86.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Be careful of virtual file systems (e.g. autofs, automount) as some implementations have semantics that differ between the mount point and contained objects. I have seen device file system implementations that claimed to implement extended attributes but that had enormously odd behaviors. ===== Casey Schaufler casey@schaufler-ca.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.