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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] capabilities: Ambient capability set V2
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 07:05:24 -0500 (CDT)
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On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> > The ancestor here is ambient_test and when it is run pI will not be set
> > despite the cap setting.
>
> ambient_test is supposed to set it.

I thought the setcap +i would do it.

So the setcap and setting of the file inheritance bits has no effect on
pI? When the process starts pI is off despite fI being set?