From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:25:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:25:56 -0500 Received: from mail.gurulabs.com ([208.177.141.7]:42205 "EHLO mail.gurulabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:25:56 -0500 Subject: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6? From: Dax Kelson To: Rusty Russell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, davej@suse.de In-Reply-To: <20021101085148.E105A2C06A@lists.samba.org> References: <20021101085148.E105A2C06A@lists.samba.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 01 Nov 2002 11:32:43 -0700 Message-Id: <1036175565.2260.20.camel@mentor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 01:49, Rusty Russell wrote: > I'm down to 8 undecided features: 6 removed and one I missed earlier. How about Olaf Dietsche's filesystem capabilities support? It has been posted a couple times to LK, yesterday even. We've had capabilities for ages (2.2?) but no filesystem support. OpenBSD is recently bragging about no longer having any SUID root binaries on the system. With FS capabilities we (Linux) can have the same situation. Security is a hot topic, and anything the kernel can do make security better/easier seems worthy of consideration. Dax Kelson