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* Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2004 22:04:15 PDT, Chris Wright said: > > > Well, I wonder what IRIX does? They support capabilities and had a > > reasonable sized hand in the draft. No point in making it impossible > > to port apps. It's not that I'm a strong fan of Posix caps, but > > compatibility (even with a partially complete draft) with defacto > > standards is not entirely unreasonable. > > The IRIX 6.5 manpage says: Thanks. OK, this is precisely POSIX as I expected. No surprise given the folks involved. <snip manpage> > Note that Irix has *3* capability vectors attached to a file.... This is what POSIX specifies (with as much authority as a withdrawn spec has ;-) thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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