On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 07:07:17PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/29/2011 06:56 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Fri, 29.04.11 00:37, Michał Piotrowski (mkkp...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I think it's a very good decision - I never understood why selinux dir > >> is directly under /. > > > > Yes, I think this would be a good thing to have in F16. > > > > Note however that this needs a tiny kernel patch to work, to create the > > mount point under /sys/fs/selinux. This is a trivial patch and has been > > done for /sys/fs/cgroup before, so I assume this would be easy to get > > in and just needs a champion to push this forward. > > > >> By the way, maybe it would be good to think about the meaning of /srv > >> existance? For seven years FHS requires that this directory exists > >> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE16A > >> but "The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is > >> unspecified as there is currently no consensus on how this should be > >> done" - so even the authors of the standard did not have anything to > >> say about how this directory should be used. Is there a rational > >> reason for the existence of this directory besides FHS conformance? > > > > I think /srv actually makes a lot of sense. Probably not so much on the > > desktop, but the boundaries are blurry, and I see no reason to set > > things up differently in this respect between servers and desktops. I > > see little benefit in removing this directory. > > > > Lennart > > > I think moving /selinux is a bit more complicated then just a simple > kernel change. We have libselinux changes, Lots of tools have learned > over the years the path of /selinux and lots of users know about it. > > I am willing to work towards the goal of moving /selinux, but I might > end up with a symbolic link if we can not fix all of the problems.
A symbolic link from /selinux to point at /sys/fs/selinux/ is a good idea to help people migrate. The startup tools should be able to create this if /sys/fs/selinux/ is not present, right? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
