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From: Christoph Lameter <cl-vYTEC60ixJUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] capabilities: Ambient capability set V2
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:50:02 -0600 (CST)
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> > > So I'd say drop this change ^
> >
> > Then the ambient caps get ignored for a executables that have capabilities
> > seton the file?
>
> Yes.  Those are assumed to already know what they're doing.

Ok can we get this patch merged now if I do this change
(effectively ambient caps for binaries that have no caps set) and deal with the
other issues later? This would cover most of the use cases here at least.