From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
sds@tycho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
morgan@kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp,
casey@schaufler-ca.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] capabilities: implement 64-bit capabilities
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:21:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071018052111.GQ3906@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071018025920.GA5067@vino.hallyn.com>
* Serge E. Hallyn (serge@hallyn.com) wrote:
> I guess now that I've written this out, it seems pretty clear
> that capget64() and capget64() are the way to go. Any objections?
How is capget64() different from capget() that supports 2 different
header->versions (I thought that was the whole point of the versioned,
rather opaque interface)? I don't object to a new syscall, but I don't
see why it's required to avoid breaking libcap.
thanks,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-18 5:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-16 2:27 [PATCH 1/2 -mm] capabilities: clean up file capability reading Serge E. Hallyn
2007-10-16 2:31 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] capabilities: implement 64-bit capabilities Serge E. Hallyn
2007-10-16 14:18 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-10-16 18:48 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-10-16 21:41 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-10-18 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-18 2:59 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-10-18 3:13 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-10-18 3:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-18 5:21 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2007-10-18 12:50 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-10-18 15:27 ` Andrew Morgan
2007-10-18 15:30 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-10-18 15:30 ` Chris Wright
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