Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1]

Y2K (y2k@y2ker.com)
Wed, 19 May 1999 12:12:03 -0700 (PDT)

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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> dijo:
> > It may show that elf capabilities will be nice even when we have
> > filesystem support: they have nice property of being able to travel
> > across other unixes unharmed.
> That is a misfeature, as it allows smuggling capabilities.
How can you use bincaps to smuggle caps since bincaps can only restrict?

-- Any caps I mention are *derived* from a withdrawn draft posix document. See http://www.millenniumproductsllc.com/sjp/ for more info.

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