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... Kamil
