Bug#929063: Moving SELinux check

[Jesse Smith]

On 5/21/19 8:45 PM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> [2019-05-18 16:14] Jesse Smith <jsmith at resonatingmedia.com>
>> From a practical perspective, I'm curious if there is any benefit or
>> drawback. Is this patch fixing a known bug,
>> does it significantly reduce the size of PID 1 in memory?
> Not that I really care about 1Mb of RAM, but:
>
> 152K	/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1
> 692K	/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsepol.so.1
> 460K	/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.13.3

I don't think removing the SELinux dependency from init actually saves
us any RAM. Several other services link to these libraries too, so the
libraries are loaded into RAM anyway and should be shared between the
various services. Unless SELinux is culled from every low-level daemon
that 1MB RAM is still going to be used.