Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] capabilities: Ambient capabilities

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Aaron Jones <aaronmdjones@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19/05/15 20:07, Andy Lutomirski wrote:> It's in the cover letter,
> rather vaguely.  I think I want to change
>> the setpriv syntax a bit before sending it upstream, though -- it's
>> sucks that you have to duplicate the option.
>>
>> Perhaps the ambient-caps option should implicitly raise inheritable
>> caps if they're not already raised.  Or maybe the absence of an
>> inh-caps rule should cause any requested ambient caps to be made
>> inheritable as well.
>>
>> --Andy
>
> I propose an additional --ambient-inh option to copy everything from
> --inh-caps to the ambient set. Explicit is better than implicit.

Seems reasonable.  I'll do something like that for v2.1.

--Andy
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