On Sat, Nov 21 2009, Kees Cook wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:33:50PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>         The report #556972 was filed about a FHS violation in mounting
>>  selinuxfs on /selinux, which is accurate. Additionally, /sys does not
>>  appear in the FHS either, and is thus in a similar situation.
>>
>>         Now, I can move the mount point in libselinux1, perhals to
>>  /lib/sellinux, but that would make us incompatible with other
>>  installations, and cause a large number of needless conflict with
>>  currently installed SELinux. Here is the backgound:
>
> Do the userspace tools use /selinux unconditionally or do they examine
> /proc/mounts?  I'm not familiar with that portion of SELinux.

        Most userspace tools use libselinux to look at things in
 selinuxfs, and there is only on place where /selinux is hardcoded (and
 only as a fallback if /proc/mounts is not available or does not know
 about selinuxfs). Everything else will examine /proc/mounts.

        manoj

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