From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] prctl: Add PR_SET_MM option description
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:16:06 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120306201606.GA16830@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgNAkg1Mhwcs_-LroUCF57e2GKDHPKsJRYKt5QW=Z1tGA8Ojw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:07:38AM +1300, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> >>
> >> It would make sense if the capability requirements were finalized
> >> before 3.3 is released. Changing them after 3.3 creates (at least a
> >> little) pain for userspace.
> >>
> >
> > OK. I'll update and send a patch out.
>
> Take a look at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html
>
> The two most obvious alternatives are CAP_SYS_RESOURCE and
> CAP_SYS_NICE. Maybe CAP_SYS_NICE is better? I say this because of the
> (slight) similarity to existing operations in the CAP_SYS_NICE list.
>
Well, dunno Michael, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE looks a bit metter for me since
the process is modifying own 'resources' (in term of what it owns).
Maybe Andrew or Tejun have something to say?
Cyrill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-06 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-29 12:23 [PATCH 0/2] Update man pages for prctl and kcmp syscall Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] prctl: Add PR_SET_MM option description Cyrill Gorcunov
[not found] ` <1330518197-12825-2-git-send-email-gorcunov-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-06 18:00 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <CAKgNAkiOY-p7duD_wfed_Tk8T8SR5r1JCTa=0ne3-VQ30mQE-g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-06 18:22 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-06 19:52 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <CAKgNAkjejoxs43UVgAR+YW7JZ1btCpMr+=K4jrZz=Ktv-TnS8w-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-06 20:01 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-03-06 20:07 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2012-03-06 20:16 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2012-04-15 3:48 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <CAKgNAkgwapZXw5gR_sSGyfufybY52S4qD1MjPDKs+6tBcgFJUg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-15 6:54 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-04-15 10:13 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <CAKgNAkjMpjmKCD3oQa7qTeH5gXydDgMj5TjmKKtyXYzV9f--fA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-15 22:10 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] Add kcmp.2 manpage Cyrill Gorcunov
[not found] ` <1330518197-12825-3-git-send-email-gorcunov-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2012-02-29 12:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-02-29 12:41 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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