Re: implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch

Casey Schaufler
2007-07-04T23:01:09Z

--- Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> wrote:

> no one has yet actually
> given an example of where fE being richer than a simple binary helps
> anything. Until I see an example, I'm going to hold the position that
> this is needless "complexity".

The only counter to this argument is that you now have a different
structure on files than on processes. Not a major issue, but one
structure to describe capability sets is less complex than two.
That way you can have one function to print a capset, regardless
of its coming off a file or a process.

Just a thought.

Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com