Re: Fedora 16 Directory Listing

"Richard W.M. Jones" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.london.gllug
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 08:07:27PM +0100, JLMS wrote:
> On 21 April 2012 19:42, Mick Farmer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear GLLUGers,
> >
> > Just curious, does anyone know what the period in this
> > column    | indicates?
> >
> > [mick@lapwing ~]$ ls -l
> > total 52
> > drwxrwxr-x   4 mick mick 4096 Jun  8  2011 Birkbeck
> > drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Mar 20 18:21 Desktop
> > drwxr-xr-x.  3 mick mick 4096 Apr 17 14:57 Documents
> > drwxr-xr-x.  8 mick mick 4096 Apr 20 19:43 Downloads
> > drwxr-xr-x  11 mick mick 4096 Nov  5 01:54 Firefox
> > drwx------   3 mick mick 4096 May 31  2011 Mail
> > drwxr-xr-x.  4 mick mick 4096 May 25  2011 Music
> > drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Dec 18 23:42 Pictures
> > drwxrwxr-x   2 mick mick 4096 Mar 22 22:30 Plan7
> > drwxrwxr-x   3 mick mick 4096 Feb 28 00:24 Polynomials
> > drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Jan  2  2011 Public
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 mick mick 1658 Apr 16 18:16 temp
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 mick mick 1806 Apr 16 14:45 temp~
> > [mick@lapwing ~]$
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mick
> >
> 
> It means that SELinux has labeled the file/directory and thus its
> policies are being applied to them.

... and one should note that the extra character is POSIX compliant.
See "optional alternate access method flag" here:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/utilities/ls.html

Rich.

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