Let me try the question again, all init daemons are started with the context specified at
[jiun@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/initrc_context
system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0

is it possible to have my application specifically override this and start with the full mcs range? you mentioned that
the init_t is able to do something like this because of some mcsconstraints, what constraints are these?

iv tried these and they do not work:

init_ranged_daemon_domain(myapp_t,myapp_exec_t,s0 - mcs_systemhigh);
mcs_process_set_categories(myapp_t);
range_transition initrc_t myapp_exec_t:process s0:c0.c1023;

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 01:42 +0300, jiun bookworm wrote:

> Dominick,
> thanks but you may have misunderstood my question, its not the daemon
> that is confined to one category
> its the child processes that it spawns, previously when in init_t
> the app could spawn processes and assign
>
> them categories, now it can not, when running under myapp_t, what
> makes init_t or other types able to
> support mcs and myapp_t can not?

There are two options:

1. you run the parent with the full mcs range
2. you override mcs constraints for the parent using the applicable mcs
type attributes

the latter is why init is allowed to do it but i recommend the former
for your parent process