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From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:11:20 -0500

> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 20:52 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:41:24AM -0800, Kok, Auke wrote:
> > > maybe try disabling selinux?
> > 
> > This will work. :^)
> 
> SELinux didn't change here.  /proc/net did.

We've been through this before...

And it is a usability issue that people can't change how procfs
directories work without requiring the user to update their selinux
policies first.