On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > In fact, I think we should drop the > libcap dependency altogether and just do the two syscalls it offers to > us natively in systemd code. Neither is libcap a particularly nice > library, nor is the stuff it does particularly complex, hence we can > as well wrap the two calls we need in our code.
I started looking at this and I just sent a patch set to remove the include of <sys/capability.h> where it was not really in use. Regarding the valid uses of libcap, it looks like the non-trivial part is cap_to_text/cap_from_text which we would have to reimplement and possibly keep them in sync with libcap. libcap also tries to support kernels which only support 32-bit capabilities. If we replace that code, should we make an assumption of 64-bit capabilities and just use a uint64_t to represent the bits? Let me know if you think this is something worth doing and I can contribute an implementation. Cheers, Filipe _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
