Jim Meyering wrote:

A desire for compatibility makes "+" look good.
"." is appealing for SELinux-only because it's inconspicuous.

Speaking as a fairly new SELinux user/admin, having a "." next to every file in my ls output is just as useful or non-useful as having a "+" next to them, so does it really buy anything? I end up needing -Z either way.

Based on the kind of real-world problems I've had, the most useful thing ls could tell me about a file on my SELinux system would be that it *should* have a label and *doesn't*, something like:

if ( selinux_enabled )
  if ( label == NULL || label == fs.defaultlabel )
    use "!"
  else
    use " "
else if ( anything else )
  use "+"







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