I have recieved a bug report on this, so I am fixing and should have a 
new rpm today.

Dan

Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 03:23, Russell Coker wrote:
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>>What are the plans regarding "ls --context /selinux"?
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>>Currently the lgetxattr() system call returns -1 (EOPNOTSUPP) and the current 
>>ls patch (taken from Dan's repository) refuses to even allow "ls -l" because 
>>of it (probably a bug in ls as I imagine that there will always be file 
>>systems that don't support it).
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>>Will "ls --context /selinux" ever work?
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>Since SELinux migrated to using xattr, the utilities can only get and
>set the contexts of files in a filesystem if it provides an xattr
>handler.  There doesn't seem to be any reason to support getting or
>setting contexts on selinuxfs entries, so I wouldn't expect us to
>implement an xattr handler for it.  The 'ls' in the patched coreutils
>from the NSA SELinux site simply displays (null) in the context field
>for such filesystems; I'm not sure why Dan has changed the behavior in
>his latest patch.  There will always be at least some filesystem types
>that will not provide xattr handlers, so it does need to cleanly handle
>this case.
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