From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:26:23 +0000 Subject: [patch] udev-selinux: restores file security context and sets mode in matchpathcon Message-Id: <20040803152623.GE4043@lkcl.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: SE-Linux , Linux Hotplug Dev List okay, updated. this is an experimental patch. - records former security context - assumes any file creates (directories, symlinks, nodes) are hunky-dory and going to be the only file creates - restores former security context. matchpathcon mode on: - directories (for the mkdirs) uses S_IFDIR - inodes (for the mknod) uses the mode passed in. - symlinks uses S_IFDIR the reason for using this patch is because of speed: if matchpathcon is used in the same process, the lookups etc. are cached. a reason for _not_ using this patch is for a udev in initrd where the smaller klibc is used. it would be necessary to add rexeg to klibc and to compile a special libselinux1 with it. if you do not intend to put udev into an initrd, this patch is perfectly acceptable for use. l. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel