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Re: [RFC][PATCH] Coalesce setfiles and restorecon into a single program

From: Christopher J. PeBenito <cpebenito_at_tresys.com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 15:40:54 +0000


On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 15:19 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Unresolved issue: Current policy defines separate domains for the two
> programs. We need to either coalesce the domains as well, or if there
> is legitimate reason for separating them, restorecon could remain a
> separate binary (either a complete separate copy or a wrapper) even if
> the sources are coalesced.

There shouldn't be any problem merging restorecon_t into setfiles_t. The only real difference of consequence is that setfiles can read its file_contexts from sysadm home dir.

-- 
Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
(410) 290-1411 x150


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