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Re: [RFC] change policy loading to initramfs

From: Bill Nottingham <notting_at_nospam>
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 01:11:12 GMT
To: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>


John Reiser (jreiser@BitWagon.com) said:
> If the problem is a failed system call, then print the name of the
> system call, the errno, and the error string. (Even without national
> language support, for instance.) If the problem lies with a file or
> directory, then include the literal pathname which failed. I spent
> many hours chasing a missing file whose name did not appear in
> any message.

The snippet you quoted *does* print strerror(errno)... there are various other errors that the SELinux routines catch, but they aren't propagated up in any way that that patch could catch.

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