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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] capabilities: Ambient capability set V1
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:27:08 -0600 (CST)
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Serge Hallyn wrote:

> > So the cap was dropped from the cap perm set but it is still active
> > in the ambient set?
>
> Right, and the legacy program doesn't know to check the new set.

Does it have to? The ambient set could not show up in permitted.