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From: Emmanuel Colbus <ecolbus@manux.info>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC][7/11][MANUX] Kernel compatibility : capset(2)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:43:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <534D3769.9070309@manux.info> (raw)

Now another syscall. I recently implemented capabilities, and decided to
use a version number that's different from the one Linux uses.  I guess
that's exactly how I should have done it, but can you confirm me that
this is acceptable?

Also, for your information, I decided to use 64-bit capabilities, in
order to give a possibility to reduce the rights of an unprivileged
software (for example, if a process lacks CAP_USR_CHMOD, it won't be
able to perform a chmod on an existing file). This means I'm not using
the same data structure as you; do you have any objection to it?

Thank you,

Emmanuel

             reply	other threads:[~2014-04-15 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-15 13:43 Emmanuel Colbus [this message]
2014-04-15 15:10 ` [RFC][7/11][MANUX] Kernel compatibility : capset(2) One Thousand Gnomes
2014-04-15 15:42   ` Emmanuel Colbus

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