Re: [PATCH] Exporting capability code/name pairs

From: KaiGai Kohei
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 03:08:28 EST


Andrew Morgan wrote:
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> KaiGai Kohei wrote:
>> Remaining issues:
>> - We have to mount securityfs explicitly, or use /etc/fstab.
>> It can cause a matter when we want to use this feature on
>> very early phase on boot. (like /sbin/init)
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> I'm not altogether clear how you intend this to work.
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> Are you saying that some future version of libcap will require that
> securityfs be mounted before it (libcap) will work?

Yes, but implementing this feature on securityfs might be not good
idea as as James said. If this feature is on procfs or sysfs, it is
not necessary to mount securityfs explicitly.

Thanks,
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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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