linux-kernel - Re: capabilities-introduce-per-process-capability-bounding-set.patch breaks FC6 Avahi

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:29:47 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: capabilities-introduce-per-process-capability-bounding-set.patch
 breaks FC6 Avahi

On 11/30/2007 08:41 PM, Jeff Dike wrote:
> avahi-daemon fails to start on FC6 when
> capabilities-introduce-per-process-capability-bounding-set.patch is
> applied.
> 
> strace shows
> 	capset(0x19980330, 0, {CAP_SETGID|CAP_SETUID|CAP_SYS_CHROOT, CAP_SETGID|CAP_SETUID|CAP_SYS_CHROOT, 0}) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
> 
> I don't know if this is expected, but the changelog doesn't seem to
> imply that this will break things.

Nope, try this :):
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/28/390

regards,
-- 
Jiri Slaby (jirislaby@...il.com)
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
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