Description of problem: vim version 7.0.d001-1 does not preserve the SE Linux context for the temporary file. For example I have edited a file named "test.c" in my /tmp directory, and I display the SE Linux context while it's running: $ ls -lZ test.c .test.c.swp -rw------- rjc rjc rjc:object_r:src_t test.c -rw------- rjc rjc rjc:object_r:tmp_t .test.c.swp $ The file .test.c.swp should have the type src_t. This is a more serious issue with Fedora Core 5 as the SE Linux context is used more for MCS. I tried to write a patch to fix this but had to give up. The code in vim is too difficult to manage. If I was going to patch this I would prefer to do it by writing functions to copy the security data from one file to another and to store the security data to a memory region and to copy it from the memory region to a file. Then such functions could be used for SE Linux security contexts, ACLs (Posix or NT - whichever is appropriate), and of course Unix permissions.
fixed in vim-7.0.000-1