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SubjectRe: RFC: capabilities(7): notes for kernel developers
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Casey Schaufler
<casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
> On 12/15/2016 11:41 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> On 12/15/2016 05:29 PM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>>> CAP_WAKE_ALARM could readily be CAP_TIME.
>> Actually, I don't quite understand what you mean with that sentence.
>> Could you elaborate?
>
> Should have said CAP_SYS_TIME
>
> Setting an alarm could be considered a time management function,
> depending on what it actually does.

Just a nit here. CAP_WAKE_ALARM is more about the privilege of waking
a system from suspend, while CAP_SYS_TIME covers the ability to set
the time. One wouldn't necessarily want to give applications which
could wake a system up the capability to also set the time.

thanks
-john

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