RE: libselinux category patch

Upon further discussion, we could probably live without whitespace in the MLS field. We can perform yet another stripping of the contexts in our own applications that would desire to show whitespace instead of a non-whitespace character such as '_'.

-Chad

>On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:18 -0400, Chad Hanson wrote:
>> We definitely need to allow whitespace in the translated context.

>Hmm...translated context is beginning to sound like it has a different
>format than the raw context, which means that it needs to be handled via
>different manipulation functions than the raw context. Differences that
>seem to be getting proposed include:
>- Dan wants to strip the sensitivity entirely from the translated
>context in the MCS libsetrans because MCS only uses categories,
>- Dan would ideally like to strip object_r from the translated context
>since it takes up display space and seemingly provides no useful
>information,
>- You would like the MLS field to include whitespace in the translated
>context.
>
>Do we need a separate set of context* functions for raw vs. translated?
>Do we need a separate data type?

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