linux-kernel - Re: patch to make Linux capabilities into something useful (v 0.3.1)

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Date:	Fri, 8 Sep 2006 06:00:06 +0200
From:	David Madore <david.madore@....fr>
To:	James Antill <james@....org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel mailing-list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: patch to make Linux capabilities into something useful (v 0.3.1)

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:21:15PM -0400, James Antill wrote:
>  Just a minor comment, can you break out the OPEN into at least
> OPEN_R, OPEN_NONFILE_W and OPEN_W (possibly OPEN_A, but I don't want
> that personally).

Version 0.4.2 of the patch, which I'm about to post to the list, adds
a CAP_REG_WRITE capability that is supposed to prevent any write
operation to the filesystem.

-- 
     David A. Madore
    (david.madore@....fr,
     http://www.madore.org/~david/ )
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