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* Andy Lutomirski (luto@myrealbox.com) wrote: > As for Posix caps, is there any good reason to follow Posix? I > don't know of any OS that has Posix caps except Linux, and they're > broken. The spec was dropped, anyway. 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. 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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