Re: [COREUTILS PATCH] selinux: avoid unnecessary security context translations

[Pádraig Brady]

On 19/12/2023 14:55, Christian Göttsche wrote:
> Do not perform SELinux context translation for operations not involving
> user input or output.  Context translation converts MCS/MLS labels into
> human readable form, which is useful for user facing applications like
> ls(1) or the --context=CTX argument of cp(1).

That seems useful.
On first glance it seems like this will bypass our getfilecon() wrappers in 
gnulib.
It seems like we should provide raw variants of those wrappers for consistency?

thanks,
Pádraig