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SELinux Mailing List
subject: [patch] file contexts RE fix Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 12:41:57 -0400 (EDT)
The attached patch (also committed to the sourceforge CVS tree) fixes the regular expressions in the file contexts configuration to conform to regex(7) by replacing the use of (|/.*) with (/.*)?. Although the GNU regcomp accepted and handled empty branches, they apparently aren't legal, and are rejected at least on FreeBSD. Thanks to Chris Vance for catching this problem. To apply, save the patch to ~/fcregex.patch, cd selinux && patch -p0 < ~/fcregex.patch. You don't need to run 'make relabel', since this change has no real effect on the resulting mappings. This patch also removes an unnecessary dependency on policy.conf for file contexts. -- Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs ssmalley@nai.com
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Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009 |