From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyrill Gorcunov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] prctl: Add PR_SET_MM option description Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:16:06 +0400 Message-ID: <20120306201606.GA16830@moon> References: <1330518197-12825-1-git-send-email-gorcunov@openvz.org> <1330518197-12825-2-git-send-email-gorcunov@openvz.org> <20120306182210.GJ29367@moon> <20120306200111.GM29367@moon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: Andrew Morton , Pavel Emelyanov , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Tejun Heo List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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