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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:51:56 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>
CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"keescook@...omium.org" <keescook@...omium.org>,
"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
"jmorris@...ei.org" <jmorris@...ei.org>,
"linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org"
<linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] Add BSD-style securelevel support
On 09/09/2013 09:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 09:42 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> Neither of this tend to be true long time... which leads one back to
>> capabilities.
>
> We can't use capabilities. Doing so breaks existing userspace.
>
Capabilities don't have to mean "POSIX capabilities"... although the
POSIX capability system in Linux really is a massive fail which it would
be nice to find some kind of fix for.
-hpa
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