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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/glibc-functions/getfilecon-desc.texi b/gnulib/doc/glibc-functions/getfilecon-desc.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb58808 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/glibc-functions/getfilecon-desc.texi @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +@macro getfileconDesc{fn} +Gnulib module: selinux-h + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +MacOS X 10.5, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS. +On those platforms, this module provides a stub that always sets +@code{errno} to @code{ENOTSUP} and returns @samp{-1}. +@item +On systems with SELinux support, this module provides a wrapper for the +@code{\fn\} function that insulates the caller from API-nonconforming behavior. +Without this wrapper, @code{\fn\} can return @samp{0} and set +the @code{context} pointer to NULL, and in another scenario can return +@samp{10} and set the @code{context} pointer to @samp{unlabeled}. +This wrapper returns @samp{-1} in each case and sets @code{errno} to +@code{ENOTSUP} and @code{ENODATA} respectively. +While the conditions that can provoke such behavior are rare, the +average caller does not handle them because the possibility of such +behavior is not documented. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@end itemize +@end macro |