linux-kernel - Re: A Plumber???s Wish List for Linux

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Date:	Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:31:43 +0000
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:	"Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lennart@...ttering.net,
	harald@...hat.com, david@...ar.dk, greg@...ah.com,
	KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@...gai.gr.jp>
Subject: Re: A Plumber???s Wish List for Linux

Quoting Andrew G. Morgan (morgan@...nel.org):
> The benefit of Kai Gai's patch was that it exported the actual names
> of the capabilities rather than have them only stored in libcap.
> 
> It is possible to use CAP_IS_SUPPORTED(cap) (in libcap-2.21) to figure
> out the maximum capability supported by the running kernel.
> 
>   https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/release-notes-for-libcap

I keep forgetting about that :)

thanks, Andrew.

-serge
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