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Message-ID: <989837.80686.qm@web36614.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:00:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
To: Andrew Morgan <morgan@...nel.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
Andrew Morgan <agm@...gle.com>, casey@...aufler-ca.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch
--- Andrew Morgan <morgan@...nel.org> wrote:
> no one has yet actually
> given an example of where fE being richer than a simple binary helps
> anything. Until I see an example, I'm going to hold the position that
> this is needless "complexity".
The only counter to this argument is that you now have a different
structure on files than on processes. Not a major issue, but one
structure to describe capability sets is less complex than two.
That way you can have one function to print a capset, regardless
of its coming off a file or a process.
Just a thought.
Casey Schaufler
casey@...aufler-ca.com
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