Re: [PATCH 1/2] find: add SELinux support

[Kamil Dudka]

On Thu July 30 2009 13:57:00 Jim Meyering wrote:
> > The attached incremental patch fixes it. Now it works on both Fedora and
> > Debian. But unfortunately it does not work with the stable version
> > (4.4.2) of findutils. Could anybody point me to the relevant change in
> > findutils code? Thanks in advance!
>
> With the FTS_CWDFD-adding change you spotted,
> I suspect that you should be using an FD-based function,
> like getfileconat or lgetfileconat from coreutils.

It's probably always better to use a FD-based function when working with
an opened file. However this is not the case I think. Only FD of the traversed 
directory is available when getfilecon() is called. If I want to use FD
of an opened  file, I need to open the file first. Then I am obviously 
encountering the same problem with relative paths.

James, what do you think the proper solution is? Is it correct to expect that 
the CWD is changed (or not changed) during the directory tree traverse?

Kamil