Kamil Dudka wrote: > On Thu August 6 2009 12:16:58 Jim Meyering wrote: >> Kamil Dudka wrote: >> > On Thu July 30 2009 13:57:00 Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> > The attached incremental patch fixes it. Now it works on both Fedora >> >> > and Debian. But unfortunately it does not work with the stable version >> >> > (4.4.2) of findutils. Could anybody point me to the relevant change in >> >> > findutils code? Thanks in advance! >> >> >> >> With the FTS_CWDFD-adding change you spotted, >> >> I suspect that you should be using an FD-based function, >> >> like getfileconat or lgetfileconat from coreutils. >> > >> > It's probably always better to use a FD-based function when working with >> > an opened file. However this is not the case I think. Only FD of the >> > traversed directory is available when getfilecon() is called. If I want >> > to use FD of an opened file, I need to open the file first. Then I am >> > obviously encountering the same problem with relative paths. >> >> With FTS_CWDFD, the working directory does not change. >> Instead, fts->fts_cwd_fd is what changes. >> You can use getfileconat (fts->fts_cwd_fd, relative_name, &context) to >> get the desired context. > > Thanks for the explanation! But the module selinux-at does not seem to be > in gnulib. How can I then use it within findutils? I guess it's not good > idea to copy the code to findutils repo...
I'll move them to gnulib.
