On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 10:45 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: > Stephen Smalley wrote: > Naturally, > > you can extract the string from the structure, so one could have then > > replaced all direct uses of the string with the struct, but I don't > > think that would be optimal; plenty of applications only want to deal > > with the string. ls -Z, ps -Z, mkdir -Z, ... > > > So, there should be convert functions to go from one to the other, and the > library interfaces should work with the opaque structure, not with the > string. I don't think so. Consider: today, ls can call getfilecon(), which internally performs a getxattr(), which returns the string stored in the attribute value, and returns it back to ls for display to the user. Why force that process to go through an extra conversion to struct and back for no reason? > Anyway, I'm not volunteering to do this right now - just making some > observations. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
