Comments inline, hopefully the mail client won't munge things too much. - todd diff --exclude-from=exclude -N -u -r nsalibselinux/man/man8/matchpathcon.8 libselinux-2.0.45/man/man8/matchpathcon.8 --- nsalibselinux/man/man8/matchpathcon.8 2007-08-03 16:02:56.000000000 -0400 +++ libselinux-2.0.45/man/man8/matchpathcon.8 2007-12-06 11:22:40.000000000 -0500 @@ -6,7 +6,12 @@ .B matchpathcon [-V] [-N] [-n] [-f file_contexts_file ] [-p prefix ] filepath... .SH "DESCRIPTION" .B matchpathcon -Prints the file path and the default security context associated with it. +Queries the system and prints the default security context associated with the filepath. This should be a lower case 'q' since it is not the start of the sentence. + +Note: Identical paths can have different security contexts, depending on the file type. (regular file, directory, link file, char file ...) + +matchpathcon will check the system default context using the file type if the file exists. If the file does not exist, it will get the context of a regular file. Should probably use ".B matchpathcon" here. + .SH OPTIONS .B \-n Do not display path. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
