From: russell@coker.com.au (Russell Coker)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 02:40:43 +1000
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH 1/2] xserver: console device is chr_file and
	not fifo_file
In-Reply-To: <744918107.204924.1492702640247@pim.register.it>
References: <744918107.204924.1492702640247@pim.register.it>
Message-ID: <201704210240.43722.russell@coker.com.au>
To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
List-Id: refpolicy.oss.tresys.com

On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 01:37:20 AM Guido Trentalancia via refpolicy wrote:
> The xserver module contains two interfaces to handle the xconsole
> device (usually /dev/xconsole).
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems that the above mentioned interfaces use the
> wrong file type: fifo (named pipe) instead of character device.

Which distribution has it as a character device?  I've only ever seen it as a 
named pipe.

Here's a snippet from /etc/init.d/rsyslog on Debian/Unstable:

create_xconsole() {
        XCONSOLE=/dev/xconsole
        if [ "$(uname -s)" != "Linux" ]; then
                XCONSOLE=/run/xconsole
                ln -sf $XCONSOLE /dev/xconsole
        fi
        if [ ! -e $XCONSOLE ]; then
                mknod -m 640 $XCONSOLE p
                chown root:adm $XCONSOLE
                [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon $XCONSOLE
        fi
}

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