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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-10-07 15:31:17 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-10-09 14:33:10 +0200
commit0023f65fd7a2ba53b0209c7b1a66c5c30612d0c2 (patch)
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parent57d9263ca54a35e76fc8ed2ec3ec8dc36f8da60b (diff)
downloadcoreutils-0023f65fd7a2ba53b0209c7b1a66c5c30612d0c2.tar.xz
chcon: don't disable just because SELinux is disabled
* src/chcon.c (main): Now that gnulib provides getfilecon wrappers, we can revert most of the 2009-10-05 commit 3a97d664, "chcon: exit immediately if SELinux is disabled", since chcon is still useful as long as the file system provides handlers for the security.* name space. gnulib's getfilecon wrappers ensure that an offending context now evokes a return value of -1. Prompted by comments from Stephen Smalley in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/18378/focus=18394 * NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention it.
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@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Bug fixes
+ chcon no longer exits immediately just because SELinux is disabled.
+ Even then, chcon may still be useful.
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.0]
+
stat -f recognizes more file system types: afs, cifs, anon-inode FS,
btrfs, cgroupfs, cramfs-wend, debugfs, futexfs, hfs, inotifyfs, minux3,
nilfs, securityfs, selinux, xenfs