From: guido@trentalancia.net (Guido Trentalancia)
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:43:26 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH 1/2] xserver: console device is chr_file and
 not fifo_file
In-Reply-To: <201704210240.43722.russell@coker.com.au>
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	<201704210240.43722.russell@coker.com.au>
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To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
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Hello Russell.

Yes, I think you might be right...

I was now double-checking it and I think it is probably right as a named pipe as it was.

I think the manage interface can be corrected and kept.

Regards,

Guido

> On the 20th of April 2017 at 18.40 Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote
> 
> 
> 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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