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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:49:52 +0900
From: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>
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Subject: Re: Question about stat
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Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 21:24 +0900, KaiGai Kohei wrote:
>> I found a strange behavior of the stat in coreutils-5.97-14.fc7.src.rpm.
>>
>> see below,
>>
>> [kaigai@masu ~]$ stat -c "%C" mytest.sql
>> (null)
>> [kaigai@masu ~]$ stat -Z -c "%C" mytest.sql
>> user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
>> [kaigai@masu ~]$
>>
>> Because stat command without '-Z' option doesn't try to obtain
>> the security context of the files specified, the format string
>> which contains "%C" doesn't work correctly.
>>
>> Is it expected behavior?
> 
> That sounds like a bug to me; the use of '%C' in the format string
> should implicitly enable the invocation of getfilecon.  I'd suggest
> filing a bug against coreutils in fedora devel at bugzilla.redhat.com,
> as there is no "upstream" repository presently for the coreutils selinux
> patch.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216672

I filed it at bugzilla.redhat.com.

Thanks,
-- 
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>

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