In working on the birthtime stat support, I noticed that we documented
that -Z has been removed, on the grounds that you can get at it with
--format=%C (although NEWS didn't mention the replacement).
Would it make sense to patch the default stat output (with no --format)
to automatically supply the %C line that Fedora's stat -Z has already
been patched to provide? That is, if coreutils is compiled with SELinux
support, I see no reason why the context information should not be part
of the default output. That way, on Fedora, where you now use 'stat -Z'
because of a distro-specific patch to override -Z being a no-op, you
would in the future ALWAYS get %C output without having to use -Z.
Besides, now's the perfect time to change the default output to include
%C where available, given that we're already changing it to add %w
birthtime ;)
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Eric Blake [email protected] +1-801-349-2682
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