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SubjectRe: Capabilities
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> [0] My thinking is somewhat slow today, but as I recall the
> fs caps implementation wants to include all three sets,
> yes?
>
> In the later POSIX drafts, I believe the fs capability sets have been
> dropped down to two, "allowed" and "forced".

That makes a lot of sense from a comprehensibility standpoint :-)

If process has CAP_FOO-p, will it get EPERM (EACCESS?) if it tries
to exec() a binary with that capability "forced"?

Matthew.


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