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SubjectRe: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1]
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.990525183140.5682A-100000@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> you wrote:
> return -EACCES: advantage: Old apps know what happened. Disadvantage: New
> apps are unsure.

Unsure about what? I think a application telling me "not enough permissions
for XXXX" does not need to tell me that cap or uid is wrong. The application
still can look at uid and current capability set if the application wants to
be more verbose (with a risk not catching local modified kernels).

Greetings
Bernd

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