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SubjectRe: RFC: disablenetwork facility. (v4)
Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> writes:

> It's probably reasonable to require that real == effective == saved ==
> fs UID (and same for GID); anything else brings up sticky issues of
> "which UID is a higher capability?"
> If a process does this call, it's effectively saying that the only way
> it's going to be accessing resources beyond its current UID and
> capabilities is by talking to another process over a (unix domain)
> socket.

Makes sense. Especially for the initial implementation,
and it keeps the code size small.

Eric



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