Re: [PATCH] capabilities: Ambient capability set V1

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> > I do not see a problem with dropping privilege since the ambient set
> > is supposed to be preserved across a drop of priviledge.
>
> Because you're tricking the program into thinking it has dropped
> the privilege, when in fact it has not.

So the cap was dropped from the cap perm set but it is still active
in the ambient set?
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