Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 03 May 1999 12:16:47 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | | Subject | RE: Capabilities: ALPHA time |
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On 30-Apr-99 Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Capabilities reached state where they are actually usefull. (I was > able to lower permissions for programs like ping and rlogin). There > are still some problems with headers (I include > /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h directly -- that's ugly), > and there are problems with applications which do getuid() and then > print failed - must be run as root when they actually do not need root > at all (fping). Diff against kernel follows, and diff against > http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/elf-caps.html follows, too (Jeremy, please > apply at least parts which look clean to you).
Your way of parsing an executable for notes is very fragile. I've posted a much better patch a couple of times - see http://www/~jeremy/caps/binfmt_elf.c.diff
J
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