Re: [RFC][PATCH] libselinux: refactored SWIG bindings

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>]

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James Athey wrote:
> I've attached refactored SWIG bindings for libselinux.  As
> requested, I've moved the Python specific wrappers into their own file.
> Here are some of the highlights:
> 
> * Should leak a lot less memory, because the wrapper handles memory
> management for lists and strings automatically
> * security_get_boolean_names is now usable
> * Instead of whitelisting functions to be wrapped, it blacklists
> functions that should not be wrapped
> 
> It's still not an ideal wrapper, partly because many functions still
> return two values - a return code, and the actual returned data.  In
> every language except C, the desired semantics would be just returning
> the data and throwing an exception if the return code != 0.  I didn't
> add this feature because it would definitely break existing code.
> 
> ~James
> 
> 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276121

Bug in refactored SWIG Bindings.


#!/usr/bin/python

import selinux
args = [ "/bin/bash", "--version" ]
selinux.rpm_execcon(0, args[0], args, [ ])

Produces:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
    selinux.rpm_execcon(0, args[0], args, [ ])
TypeError: in method 'rpm_execcon', argument 3 of type 'char *const []'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libselinux-2.0.31-3.fc8

James do  you have a nice quick fix for this?
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