From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261993AbUEJWGS (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 18:06:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261988AbUEJWGE (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 18:06:04 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:41744 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261638AbUEJWF7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 18:05:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 23:05:58 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-mm1 Message-ID: <20040510230558.A8159@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040510024506.1a9023b6.akpm@osdl.org> <20040510223755.A7773@infradead.org> <20040510150203.3257ccac.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040510150203.3257ccac.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:02:03PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Capabilities are broken and don't work. Nobody has a clue how to provide > the required services with SELinux and nobody has any code and we need the > feature *now* before vendors go shipping even more ghastly stuff. The thing is special privilegues for a group don't fit into any of the various privilegues schemes we have (capabilities, selinux, etc..), it's really a horrible hack. What happened to the patch rick promised to make mlock an rlimit? This is the right approach and could be easily extended to hugetlb pages.