Bug 185812 - The man page for restorecon doesn't document whether sym links are followed.
Summary: The man page for restorecon doesn't document whether sym links are followed.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: policycoreutils
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-18 18:19 UTC by Bruno Wolff III
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-03-24 04:54:41 UTC
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Description Bruno Wolff III 2006-03-18 18:19:17 UTC 
Description of problem:
The man page for restorecon doesn't say how -R behaves when there are sym links.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. man restorecon
2.
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
It looks like there is a changelog entry indicating that restorecon isn't
supposed to follow symlinks and/or apply changes to targets of sym links.
Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2006-03-20 19:46:23 UTC 
restorecon will not follow symbolic links.
Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2006-05-24 03:48:15 UTC 
Fixed in rawhide.
Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2007-03-24 04:54:41 UTC 
I can confirm that the man page has a note that it does NOT follow symbolic links. 

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