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To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0-test6: Filesystem capabilities 0.15
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From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de>
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 00:45:07 +0200
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Hi Andy,

Andy Lutomirski <luto@stanford.edu> writes:

> I have an alternate patch, implementing file capabilities using
> xattrs.
[...]
> The patch and user tools are at http://www.stanford.edu/~luto/linux-fscap/
> (Apply the cap- patches in order.  Patches are against 2.6.0-test6 vanilla.)

I glanced over it and it looks interesting. Thanks for this
alternative view.

> Olaf -- what do you think?  (I like your CAP_SETFCAP addition -- I may
> add it to my patch.

This is not my invention. It is part of the POSIX standard, see
<http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/posix.1e/> and
<http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/posix.1e/download.html>

Regards, Olaf.