Re: [PATCH 01/12] Add BSD-style securelevel support

H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-09T16:52:15Z

On 09/09/2013 09:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 09:42 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> Neither of this tend to be true long time... which leads one back to
>> capabilities.
>
> We can't use capabilities. Doing so breaks existing userspace.
>

Capabilities don't have to mean "POSIX capabilities"... although the
POSIX capability system in Linux really is a massive fail which it would
be nice to find some kind of fix for.

-hpa