Quoting Casey Schaufler (ca...@schaufler-ca.com): > I'm game to participate in such an effort. The POSIX scheme > is workable, but given that it's 20 years old and hasn't > developed real traction it's hard to call it successful.
Over the years we've several times discussed possible reasons for this and how to help. I personally think it's two things: 1. lack of toolchain and fs support. The fact that we cannot to this day enable ping using capabilities by default because of cpio, tar and non-xattr filesystems is disheartening. 2. It's hard for users and applications to know what caps they need. yes the API is a bear to use, but we can hide that behind fancier libraries. But using capabilities requires too much in-depth knowledge of precisely what caps you might need for whatever operations library may now do when you asked for something. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
