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RE: Category Translation patch for MCS/MLS Policy


Attached is a patch to dlopen libselinux from procps and call getpidcon.
This patch is relative to procps-3.2.5-6.3 (from Fedora Updates).

-Chad

Stephen Smalley wrote:

> 
> IIRC, at present, procps doesn't use libselinux at all; procps directly
> reads /proc/pid/attr/current and displays that value, since procps
> already deals directly with /proc/pid entries and the maintainer
> preferred to avoid a dependency of procps on libselinux (but was willing
> to accept a dlopen of libselinux if we were to create such a patch, as
> long as procps continues to work in the absence of libselinux).  Hence,
> without further changes, procps won't perform any translation at all.
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Smalley
> National Security Agency
>  

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