Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: why are capabilities disabled? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:01:23 -0500 |
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:29:28 +0100, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler@upb.de> said: > Hi, > > "getpcaps 1" shows, that the init-process is started without > cap_setpcap, and i know that i can change that somehow. > So why are capabilities disabled? and how do i enable them? > > If capabilities aren't still too unmature, wouldn't it be fine to have > an option in "make menuconfig" to enable them?
There was a long thread back in October 2003 labeled:
Subject: Re: posix capabilities inheritance
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106673587410831&w=2
that discusses the biggest issues. Basically, we can get it right, or we can follow Posix. Andy Lutomirski at Stanford seemed to know what needed doing, but I don't know if any actual changes were applied to the baseline source tree. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |