Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Date | Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:33:33 +0100 | Subject | Re: Documentation patch for namespaced file capabilities |
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Hi Serge,
On 29 November 2017 at 18:58, Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> wrote: > Quoting Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) (mtk.manpages@gmail.com): >> Hi Serge, >> >> At the moment man-pages lacks documentation of the namespaced file >> capability feature that you added with commit >> 8db6c34f1dbc8e06aa016a9b829b06902c3e1340. Would you be able to send a >> patch describing the feature? > > Sorry. I'm adding this to my todo list, so I should get to it soon.
A gentle ping...
Cheers,
Michael
>> Presumably, the patch would be for the capabilities(7) page (or >> perhaps for the user_namespaces(7) page, if that seems more >> appropriate), As well as documenting the semantics, it would be good >> to include an example or two of the notation that is used for the >> xattr names. >> >> Presumably also there will be some changes in userspace tools >> (setcap/getcap?). Do you know anything about what's happening there? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael >> >> >> -- >> Michael Kerrisk >> Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ >> Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
-- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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