Eamon Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't have a suggestion on the usage, but your overhead is coming from
> the loading of the file contexts database on each invocation of
> /bin/install.  You could try to make the gettext installer more
> judicious about batching things into a single /bin/install command
> line. Or make install a shell builtin, so that it's not a separate
> process.

Thanks for the suggestions, but unfortunately, neither is feasible,
since the Makefile install rules are generated by automake.

> There is a new handle-based set of calls that replaces matchpathcon()
> and friends.  See include/selinux/label.h.  If you're rewriting this
> part of the code, I'd recommend switching over.  It won't affect
> performance too much I'm afraid, but maybe at some point there will be
> a daemon backend of some sort so it just makes an IPC call instead of
> loading the database in the library code.

Good to know.
I'll hold off for now, since there'd be no immediate benefit.


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