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Re: POSIX capabilities patch



On Nov 15, Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:

 >>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 don't know. It was a quick hack I made because I wanted to play with
capabilities. I suppose that there is a reason if whoever designed this
did not allow normal programs to raise capabilities.

 >I assume init then has to link against libcap or something.
No, it's not needed.

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ciao, |
Marco | [3073 osO.igcE1/dtA]



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