Your message dated Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:19:31 -0500 with message-id <87my5ijji4....@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com> has caused the report #544215, regarding policycoreutils: /dev/pts not created with policycoreutils 2.0.71 to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) seli...@tycho.nsa.gov
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--- Begin Message ---On Sat, Aug 29 2009, Martin Orr wrote: > With policycoreutils 2.0.71, "restorecon /dev/stdin" fails if stdin is a pipe: > mar...@caligula:~$ echo hi | sudo restorecon /dev/stdin > realpath(/dev/stdin) failed No such file or directory > > Why would you want to do this? > The Debian udev init script does > ln -s /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/stdin > restorecon /dev/stdin > I am not sure why stdin is a pipe here but it is some consequence of the > boot process. > > The intention here (and what happened with policycoreutils 2.0.69) is to > relabel the symbolic link. But the recent realpath patch changed this, and > I don't think there is a way now to ask restorecon to relabel an individual > symlink. There are consequences to this change not mentioned above: when booting with policycoreutils 2.0.71 /dev/pts (and several other device nodes) are not created which causes all sorts of trouble. This is a consequence of the realpath changes in restorecon, because when /lib/udev/create_static_nodes does ln -s /proc/self/fd/0 /dev/stdin restorecon /dev/stdin it now fails with the error realpath(/dev/stdin) failed No such file or directory This causes create_static_nodes to exit (due to set -e) before creating /dev/pts. I am planning on reverting the removal of special treatment of symlinks from the debian unstable version until this is resolved. manoj -- Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@acm.org> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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