Re: avc_* functions not in libselinux-python

[Ted X Toth <txtoth@gmail.com>]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 15:30 -0500, Xavier Toth wrote:
>   
>> For now I don't think that's a problem as I was looking at using
>> avc_has_perm and the context to sid conversion function.
>>     
>
> What's the status on this?  I see patches in the Fedora libselinux
> package to add the AVC interfaces to the swig bindings, but they aren't
> upstream.  Do they work as expected? 
The interfaces I'm using (avc_open, avc_reset, avc_context_to_sid, 
avc_has_perm_noaudit) are working as expected.

>  Should they be upstreamed?
>
>   
I think so.
>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
>>     
>>>  On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 17:02 -0500, Xavier Toth wrote:
>>>  > Can these functions get swig'd and their wrappers built into _selinux.so?
>>>
>>>  Patches accepted.
>>>
>>>  One possible issue here is function pointer callbacks, which is a more
>>>  general problem than just the avc interfaces in libselinux.  But if you
>>>  are ok with the default callbacks, I suppose there is no problem there.
>>>
>>>  --
>>>  Stephen Smalley
>>>  National Security Agency
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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