Re: [ linus-git ] prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...) is broken for someconfigs, e.g. CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:10:26 -0700 Andrew Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nacked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In a configuration in which you are not using capabilities, what is the
> "keep capabilities" operation supposed to do? Lie to you?
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10748

I totally agree with comment 11 there. Quite a number of people have already
hit this and more surely will.  How can we help them (and hence us)?
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