Question regarding /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

[Bill Nottingham]

Paul Moore (paul.moore at hp.com) said: 
> Is there any reason for keeping lines 75 - 85 of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit 
> (from initscripts-8.11.1-1)?  The reason I ask is that these ten lines 
> are causing AVC denial messages when using Dan Walsh's MLS policy and as 
> far as I can tell these lines don't do anything useful.  In my limited 
> testing removing these lines from rc.sysinit has not caused any problems 
> - am I missing something?

They're a workaround for a kernel bug that wasn't fixed until 2.6.12.

Bill