Re: [PATCH 1/2] file capabilities: add no_file_caps switch (v2)

From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Mon Sep 22 2008 - 18:09:19 EST


On Monday, 22 September 2008 23:50:32 Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Andreas Gruenbacher (agruen@xxxxxxx):
> > I agree. These other behaviorial changes should not depend on
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES; the old behavior should just be fixed
> > instead.
>
> That of course would be the point of the patch 3/3, which removes
> CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES as a config option. Should I
> do that

I think yes.

> when I redo the patch as per Stephen's suggestion to use filecaps=0/1?

This will require to adjust our installer, which uses no_file_caps already. I
don't think that filecaps=0/1 is really necessary, but it I can life with
either.

Thanks,
Andreas
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