Re: [patch 2.1.97] more capabilities support

Andrew Morgan (morgan@transmeta.com)
Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:02:04 -0700

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Andrej Presern writes:
> > I'm happy to say that capabilities as a concept have emerged from this
> > research. It is my understanding that they are preferable to many of
> > the other alternatives because they can be implemented in such a way
> > that does not slow down the kernel.
>
> You don't know how right you are:) Only that I'm not talking about
> capability lists such as POSIX:)

I think you will find that POSIX labels your flavor of capability as
"Mandatory Access Control" it is also a part of the POSIX draft...

Cheers

Andrew

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