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Re: security_context_t marked as deprecated in libselinux 3.1

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

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From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-08-13T10:54:41Z
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On 8/13/20 1:22 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:50:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Ummm ... aren't you going to get some cast-away-const warnings now?
>> Or are all of the called functions declared as taking "const char *"
>> not just "char *"?
> 
> Let me see..  The function signatures we use have been visibly changed
> in 9eb9c932, which comes down to a point between 2.2.2 and 2.3, and
> there are two of them we care about, both use now "const char *":
> - security_check_context_raw()
> - security_compute_create_name_raw()
> We claim in the docs that the minimum version of libselinux supported
> is 2.1.10 (7a86fe1a from march 2012).
> 
> Then, the only buildfarm animal I know of testing selinux is
> rhinoceros, that uses CentOS 7.1, and this visibly already bundles
> libselinux 2.5 that was released in 2016 (2b69984), per the RPM list
> here:
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/
> Joe, what's the version of libselinux used in rhinoceros?  2.5?


rpm -q libselinux
libselinux-2.5-15.el7.x86_64


Joe

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