Re: [PATCH ghak90 V8 13/16] audit: track container nesting
On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 10:47 AM Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:19:44 AM EST Richard Guy Briggs
wrote:
> > The established pattern is that we print -1 when its unset and "?"
when
> > its totalling missing. So, how could this be invalid? It should be set
> > or not. That is unless its totally missing just like when we do not run
> > with selinux enabled and a context just doesn't exist.
>
> Ok, so in this case it is clearly unset, so should be -1, which will be a
> 20-digit number when represented as an unsigned long long int.
>
> Thank you for that clarification Steve.
It is literally a -1. ( 2 characters)
Well, not as Richard has currently written the code, it is a "%llu".
This was why I asked the question I did; if we want the "-1" here we
probably want to special case that as I don't think we want to display
audit container IDs as signed numbers in general.
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paul moore
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