Re: check capabilities in open()

Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-07-26T16:52:35Z

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 07:23 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> The reason why the apm device needed to sample the suser() bit is that
> it can be opened by root and non-root processes, but it wanted to
> extend the Unix/Linux paradigm that privileges are tested at open()
> time.
Yes, it's exactly that I mean, check at open() time and grand high or
less priviledges.

>
> So this is a not a bug, but quite deliberately, by design.
If it is explicitly designed to check UID at open() time and to have 2
kinds of file descriptors - priviledged and nonpriviledged, I'm fine
with this.

I wanted kernel community to draw attention because this moment was
not obviously for me and I thought it was a design flaw. Now I'm pleased
with your explanation, thank you.