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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] user-namespaced file capabilities - now with even more magic
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 09:33:50AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Serge,
>
> On 11/24/2016 11:52 PM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) (mtk.manpages@gmail.com):
>
> [...]
>
> >> Could we have a man-pages patch for this feature? Presumably for
> >> user_namespaces(7) or capabilities(7).
> >
> > capabilities.7 doesn't actually mention anything about user namespaces
> > right now.
>
> True. There's really just this:
>
> Interaction with user namespaces
> For a discussion of the interaction of capabilities and user
> namespaces, see user_namespaces(7).
>
> > I'll come up with a patch for both I think. Do you have a
> > deadline for a new release coming up?
>
> No deadlines as such. The last couple of years, as a sort of
> experiment, I've fallen into the same release cycle as the kernel
> (typically making a release in the week or so after the kernel release),
> and I am even using a similar numbering scheme. Ideally, the man-pages
> patch would go into the release that corresponds to the kernel release
> that makes the change.

Cool - I'll write something up in the next few weeks.

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