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Re: POSIX capabilities patch



In article <[🔎] 20031115163401.GA2483@wonderland.linux.it>,
Marco d'Itri  <md@Linux.IT> wrote:
>On Nov 15, Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:
>
> >>  >And if i enable SETPCAP for init, will init drop that capability? Will it
> >>  >pass it to all started programs?
> >> See http://www.linux.it/~md/ssd.tgz .
> >> No kernel hacks needed.
> >I see a 404. 
>Sorry: http://www.linux.it/~md/software/ssd.tgz .

Should that go into /sbin/init itself, so that you can boot with
initcaps=eip,cap_setpcap+eip on the command line ? Or is it still
too early to put that into init upstream ?

I assume init then has to link against libcap or something.
Would it add a lot of size to the binary ?

Mike.



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