Doc updates for SELinux support.

* ack.texi, emacs.texi (Acknowledgments): Add SELinux support.

* etc/NEWS: Mention SELinux support.

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index 7c050b83af7ced562de464bce327aaa2a62be59d..a2cc7a08ef6ee816055c38ca5f18b0198548cf0f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-04-21  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+       * ack.texi, emacs.texi (Acknowledgments): Add SELinux support.
+
 2010-04-18  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
 
        * programs.texi (Semantic): New node.

diff --git a/doc/emacs/ack.texi b/doc/emacs/ack.texi
index 2d4636dd74f252e043cd0714e2d04e2c05e17110..0f6e57d8f8b48cba73af06a159b5e1f654ccb8de 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/ack.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/ack.texi
@@ -573,6 +573,10 @@ Peter Kleiweg wrote @file{ps-mode.el}, a mode for editing PostScript
 files and running a PostScript interpreter interactively from within
 Emacs.
 
+@item
+Karel Kl@'{@dotless{i}}@v{c} contributed SELinux support, for preserving the
+Security-Enchanced Linux context of files on backup and copy.
+
 @item
 Shuhei Kobayashi wrote @file{hex-util.el}, for operating on hexadecimal
 strings; support for HMAC (Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication);

diff --git a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
index d4f6c1af92c38fe102df825c1edc3bd766d1f861..28a9a8d014b6ad047feb82af865e2bc93e9b271e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/emacs.texi
@@ -1375,12 +1375,12 @@ Janik, Paul Jarc, Ulf Jasper, Michael K. Johnson, Kyle Jones, Terry
 Jones, Simon Josefsson, Arne J@o{}rgensen, Tomoji Kagatani, Brewster
 Kahle, Tokuya Kameshima, Lute Kamstra, David Kastrup, David Kaufman,
 Henry Kautz, Taichi Kawabata, Howard Kaye, Michael Kifer, Richard King,
-Peter Kleiweg, Shuhei Kobayashi, Pavel Kobiakov, Larry K.@: Kolodney,
-David M.@: Koppelman, Koseki Yoshinori, Robert Krawitz, Sebastian
-Kremer, Ryszard Kubiak, David K@aa{}gedal, Daniel LaLiberte, Karl
-Landstrom, Mario Lang, Aaron Larson, James R.@: Larus, Vinicius Jose
-Latorre, Werner Lemberg, Frederic Lepied, Peter Liljenberg, Lars
-Lindberg, Chris Lindblad, Anders Lindgren, Thomas Link, Juri Linkov,
+Peter Kleiweg, Karel Kl@'{@dotless{i}}@v{c}, Shuhei Kobayashi, Pavel
+Kobiakov, Larry K.@: Kolodney, David M.@: Koppelman, Koseki Yoshinori,
+Robert Krawitz, Sebastian Kremer, Ryszard Kubiak, David K@aa{}gedal, Daniel
+LaLiberte, Karl Landstrom, Mario Lang, Aaron Larson, James R.@: Larus,
+Vinicius Jose Latorre, Werner Lemberg, Frederic Lepied, Peter Liljenberg,
+Lars Lindberg, Chris Lindblad, Anders Lindgren, Thomas Link, Juri Linkov,
 Francis Litterio, Emilio C. Lopes, K@'{a}roly L@H{o}rentey, Dave Love,
 Sascha L@"{u}decke, Eric Ludlam, Alan Mackenzie, Christopher J.@:
 Madsen, Neil M.@: Mager, Ken Manheimer, Bill Mann, Brian Marick, Simon

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index fcd293781b61fd00451a65d21ffa05446370ef71..3510b66b616116103ea3b2067169dbb44280a914 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ so we will look at it and add it to the manual.
 These provide no new functionality, they just remove the need to edit
 lib-src/Makefile by hand in order to use the associated features.
 
+** Configure links against libselinux if it is found.
+You can disable this by using --without-selinux.
+
 \f
 * Startup Changes in Emacs 24.1
 
@@ -68,6 +71,14 @@ Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this.
 ** Lucid menus and dialogs can display antialiased fonts if Emacs is built
 with Xft.
 
+** Basic SELinux support has been added.
+This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
+
+*** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up or copying files.
+
+*** The new functions file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
+get and set the SELinux context of a file.
+
 ** New scrolling commands `scroll-up-command' and `scroll-down-command'
 (bound to C-v/[next] and M-v/[prior]) does not signal errors at top/bottom
 of buffer at first key-press (instead moves to top/bottom of buffer)