On ven, 2013-12-13 at 08:52 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:29:29 +0000 "Schaufler, Casey" > <[email protected]> said: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > > Behalf Of José Bollo > > > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 7:05 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [Dev] Smack aware softwares > > > (snip) > > > > > So it will be > > > easy to just adapt the small SELINUX part of 'vi' > > > to handle Smack. > > > > Yes, you could. If that's turning off the backcopy option it should work > > fine. > > just to not, turning off the atomic rename saving mechanism in vi (mind you > every cmdline text editor i know of does this - vi, emacs and jed too), is > unsafe. it can ultimately lead to file corruption. the write-to-tmpfile and > rename on top is a mechanism to ensure you have either the full old file R > complete new file, but NEVER anything in between. the rename guarantees > atomicity.
You are right. The SELinux part of vi takes care of that and is just copying the security context from one file to the other. regards _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/dev
