Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:44:30 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] capabilities not inherited |
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* Manfred Georg (mgeorg@arl.wustl.edu) wrote: > I was working with passing capabilities through an exec and it > didn't do what I expected it to. That is, if I set a bit in > the inherited capabilities, it is not "inherited" after an > exec(). After going through the code many times, and still not > understanding it, I hacked together this patch. It probably > has unforseen side effects and there was probably some > reason it was not done in the first place.
True to both. If you'd like to work with this, check the archives for similar patches. Most recent in a thread from Alex Nyberg starting here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111062795600730&w=2
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