Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Thu Feb 10 2005 - 19:06:34 EST


On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:51:44PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> [direct reply bounced, resending via gmail]
>
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:35:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm2/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > - Added the mlock and !SCHED_OTHER Linux Security Module for the audio guys.
> > > > It seems that nothing else is going to come along and this is completely
> > > > encapsulated.
> > >
> > > Even if we accept a module that grants capabilities to groups this
> > > isn't fine yet because it only supports two specific capabilities
> > > (and even those two in different ways!) instead of adding generic
> > > support to bind capabilities to groups.
> >
> > I'm sure that got discussed somewhere in the 1000 emails which flew past
> > last time. Jack?
>
> [adding cc: for the main discussion participants]
>
> Most people felt that a more general capabilities module would be nice
> to have. But, no one offered any code, or volunteered to work on it.

What happened to the RT rlimit code from Chris?

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