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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:07:38 +1300 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com> To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] prctl: Add PR_SET_MM option description On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 08:52:30AM +1300, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > ... >> > >> > If you prefer to have it done earlier -- no problem, I'll cook >> > a patch today instead on top of everything we've already >> > merged into linux-next. What would you prefer? >> >> It would make sense if the capability requirements were finalized >> before 3.3 is released. Changing them after 3.3 creates (at least a >> little) pain for userspace. >> > > OK. I'll update and send a patch out. Take a look at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html The two most obvious alternatives are CAP_SYS_RESOURCE and CAP_SYS_NICE. Maybe CAP_SYS_NICE is better? I say this because of the (slight) similarity to existing operations in the CAP_SYS_NICE list. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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