linux-kernel - Re: [patch] file capabilities: Add no_file

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:09:38 -0500
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	"Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] file capabilities: Add no_file_caps switch

Quoting Andrew G. Morgan (morgan@...nel.org):
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> Sorry to get to this late.
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> I very much prefer this patch over the resuscitation of the cap_set_pg()
> code.
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> [I would also like to advocate we combine it with making
> CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y the default config option.]

I certainly don't mind that, but I would expect complaints about this
unless the default boot option were 'n'.

Do you think it's worth sending as a separate trivial patch?  Then if
people object to one both changes won't be held up.

(Anyway that's what I'll do right now)

-serge
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