Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 May 2004 22:40:42 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] capabilities, take 3 (Re: [PATCH] capabilites, take 2) |
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* Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2004 22:04:15 PDT, Chris Wright said: > > > Well, I wonder what IRIX does? They support capabilities and had a > > reasonable sized hand in the draft. No point in making it impossible > > to port apps. It's not that I'm a strong fan of Posix caps, but > > compatibility (even with a partially complete draft) with defacto > > standards is not entirely unreasonable. > > The IRIX 6.5 manpage says:
Thanks.
OK, this is precisely POSIX as I expected. No surprise given the folks involved.
<snip manpage>
> Note that Irix has *3* capability vectors attached to a file....
This is what POSIX specifies (with as much authority as a withdrawn spec has ;-)
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