Re: why are capabilities disabled?

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:29:28 +0100, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler@xxxxxx>  said:
> Hi,
> 
> "getpcaps 1" shows, that the init-process is started without 
> cap_setpcap, and i know that i can change that somehow.
> So why are capabilities disabled? and how do i enable them?
> 
> If capabilities aren't still too unmature, wouldn't it be fine to have 
> an option in "make menuconfig" to enable them?

There was a long thread back in October 2003 labeled:

Subject: Re: posix capabilities inheritance

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106673587410831&w=2

that discusses the biggest issues.  Basically, we can get it right, or
we can follow Posix.  Andy Lutomirski at Stanford seemed to know what needed
doing, but I don't know if any actual changes were applied to the baseline
source tree.

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