Re: unreasonably long SE Linux context display

[Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 03:33, Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > For ls it would be good to be able to display part of the context.  For
> > the vast majority of invocations of "ls -Z" on a SE Linux system the
> > identity and role are not desired in the output.
>
> James previously suggested introducing environment variables to control
> the display of contexts, so that you could alter ls and ps -Z output
> simply by adjusting such variables.

I don't think that's such a good idea.  As the output of such programs will be 
used by shell scripts it will have some interesting possibilities for 
breaking such scripts.

> In any event, patches speak louder than words here...

OK, as no-one seems to have a great objection I'll write some patches when I 
find time.

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