Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 2004 16:41:32 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] capabilities |
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Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com> wrote: > > This reintroduces useful capabilities. >
What if there are existing applications which are deliberately or inadvertently relying upon the current behaviour? That seems unlikely, but the consequences are gruesome.
If I'm right in this concern, the fixed behaviour should be opt-in. That could be via a new prctl() thingy but I think it would be better to do it via a kernel boot parameter. Because long-term we should have the fixed semantics and we should not be making people change userspace for some transient 2.6-only kernel behaviour.
> Andrew- is this sufficiently non-scary for -mm?
Scares the shit out of me, frankly ;)
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