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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] exporting capability name/code pairs (for 2.6.26)
Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>>> You claim that libcap people can't or don't want to parse such file?
>> Yes,
>> In the previous discussion, it was undesirable idea to parse a file
>> to obtain a new/unknown capability name/code pair, because it tends
>> to have bigger number and appears at the tail.
>> (If my brain memories it correctly.)
>>
>>> 0 CAP_CHOWN
>>> 1 CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE
>>> 2 CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
>>> 3 CAP_FOWNER
>>> 4 CAP_FSETID
>>> 5 CAP_KILL
>>> 6 CAP_SETGID
>>> 7 CAP_SETUID
>>> 8 CAP_SETPCAP
>>> 9 CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE
>>> 10 CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
>>> 11 CAP_NET_BROADCAST
>>> 12 CAP_NET_ADMIN
>>> 13 CAP_NET_RAW
>>> 14 CAP_IPC_LOCK
>>> 15 CAP_IPC_OWNER
>>> 16 CAP_SYS_MODULE
>>> 17 CAP_SYS_RAWIO
>>> 18 CAP_SYS_CHROOT
>>> 19 CAP_SYS_PTRACE
>>> 20 CAP_SYS_PACCT
>>> 21 CAP_SYS_ADMIN
>>> 22 CAP_SYS_BOOT
>>> 23 CAP_SYS_NICE
>>> 24 CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
>>> 25 CAP_SYS_TIME
>>> 26 CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG
>>> 27 CAP_MKNOD
>>> 28 CAP_LEASE
>>> 29 CAP_AUDIT_WRITE
>>> 30 CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL
>>> 31 CAP_SETFCAP
>>> 32 CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE
>>> 33 CAP_MAC_ADMIN
>>> That's what you claim? Do I undestand you correctly?
>> Yes, but I don't *oppose* your approach. :)
>>
>> BTW, I think "version" info should be included as follows:
>> 0x20071026 vesion
>> 0 cap_chown
>> 1 cap_dac_override
>> : :
>
> It shouldn't. You can do capget(42, ...);, get EINVAL and current
> version written back.
>
> Wrap this in libcap if needed.

libcap is the primary user of the facility to export capability
name/code pairs. I think obviously libcap should wrap this version
info and hide it from applications/users.

Thanks,
--
OSS Platform Development Division, NEC
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>


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