Re: [RFC] capabilities: Ambient capabilities

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Apr 24 2015 - 16:13:38 EST


On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> That's sort of what my patch does -- you need CAP_SETPCAP to switch
> the securebit.
>
> But Christoph's patch required it to add caps to the ambient set, right?

Yes but you seem to be just adding one additional step without too much of
a benefit because you still need CAP_SETPCAP.

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