Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 May 1999 15:55:35 +1200 | | From | Rodger Donaldson <> | | Subject | Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1] |
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On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 09:53:41AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And anything that requires me to compile anything as a MIS person is > basically not acceptable. Remember what =users= are? They are the kind of > people that want to use the system, and not care about the technical > issues.
I'll say an amen to that as an administrator - I'd feel a large portion of the ostensible benefits of capabilities had been lost if I have to compile an ELF binary anytime I want to modify a program's capabilities.
-- Rodger Donaldson rodgerd@ihug.co.nz
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