Re: implement-file-posix-capabilities.patch

[Casey Schaufler]

--- Andrew Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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