[RFC] change policy loading to initramfs

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Jan 24 01:11:12 UTC 2008


John Reiser (jreiser at 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.

Bill




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