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Re: Emacs and SELinux contexts
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Emacs and SELinux contexts |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:12:21 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I have noticed something with emacs on GNU/Linux systems. When you edit
> something with Emacs, the SELinux context of the file doesn't stay
> preserved. This could be an issue when you edit configuration or policy
As mentioned, there is improved support in the trunk (i.e. for
Emacs-24), but since this won't be released in the near future, maybe
playing around with backup-by-copying and some of its friends will let
you work around the problem in the mean time.
Stefan
PS: I say "maybe" because I know nothing about SELinux.