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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] capabilities, take 3 (Re: [PATCH] capabilites, take 2)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:40:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040513224042.O21045@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405140532.i4E5WF4p006799@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>; from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:32:15AM -0400

* 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This is what POSIX specifies (with as much authority as a withdrawn spec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 ;-)

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-14  5:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-13 20:08 [PATCH] capabilites, take 2 Andy Lutomirski
2004-05-14  1:20 ` Chris Wright
2004-05-14  1:35   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-14  4:51     ` Chris Wright
2004-05-14  5:33     ` Olaf Dietsche
2004-05-14  6:04       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-14  7:09         ` Olaf Dietsche
2004-05-14  2:27   ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-05-14  4:48     ` Chris Wright
2004-05-14  5:58       ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-05-14 17:45         ` Chris Wright
2004-05-14  6:39     ` Olaf Dietsche
2004-05-14  2:45   ` [PATCH] capabilities, take 3 (Re: [PATCH] capabilites, take 2) Andy Lutomirski
2004-05-14  5:04     ` Chris Wright
2004-05-14  5:32       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-14  5:40         ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-05-14  6:25           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-14 11:10     ` Olaf Dietsche
2004-05-14 14:15       ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-05-15 15:50         ` Olaf Dietsche

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