Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Is CAP_SYS_ADMIN checked by every program !? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:46:31 -0500 |
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:35:06 EST, Kyle Moffett said:
> Yes, whenever anything on the computer, including the kernel, checks if > a program > has a capability bit set, it will print out whether or not it does in > the dmesg. Why > does that matter?
If you actually log your kernel messages it can matter, if every single process suddenly starts dumping a line in your syslogs, especially on a busy system... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |