Re: SELinux for upstream coreutils, finally (RFC: does mkdir need -Z?)

[Andreas Schwab]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Russell Coker <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Friday 30 March 2007 23:13, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> What did you think of the proposal (in the link above) for
>>>
>>>     fscon CTX mkdir /new/directory
>>>
>>> IMHO, it's not so much less "user friendly" than this equivalent:
>>>
>>>     mkdir -C CTX /new/directory
>>
>> How about:
>> umask whatever ; mkdir /new/directory
>>
>> Instead of mkdir -m whatever /new/directory?

Actually -m can do more than umask (-m 2755 cannot be simulated with
umask).

Andreas.

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