Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:13:09 -0800 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM |
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:06:02PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:50:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > > Can we use capabilities > > > > capabilities don't work :( > > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.0/0502.html > > well, maybe it is time to fix them .. > > I already proposed some methods to extend them, > and I'm also willing to dig into the various things > required to allow to use the capability system for > what it was intended.
You can't fix them without changing the semantics for existing users in ways they didn't expect. It could be done with a new personality flag, but..
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