Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 01/09/2013 05:15 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 01/09/2013 11:02 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> On 01/09/2013 03:50 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>>> >>>> Any word on this patch making its way upstream? Or is there something >>>> else I need to do? >>> >>> It's still on my todo list. I expect to finish the review soonish and have >>> it in the next release. >>> >>> thanks, Pádraig. >> >> Excellent. Thanks. BTW We just received a patch from Ondrej Oprala for >> libselinux which according to him, >> >> "I tested the patched libselinux with >> $cp -a dir1 dir2 >> and got an approx. 20% save in instruction count. " >> >> Basically the patch caches calls to setfscreatecon() and if the context is >> the >> same as the previous call, it does a noop (Well it needs to do a strcmp) but >> does not need to write to the /sys/fs/selinux file system. >> >> Should make large cp's which maintain attributes, work a little faster. Or >> any other tools in coreutils that do lots of setfscreatecon calls. >> >> rpm -q libselinux >> libselinux-2.1.12-12.fc19.x86_64 > > Cool, I hinted at that here: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-01/msg00013.html > So we won't need to worry about a coreutils patch for that.
Glad to hear that. Thanks for the heads up.
