Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755066Ab3IIQwP (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Sep 2013 12:52:15 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58600 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753618Ab3IIQwN (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Sep 2013 12:52:13 -0400 Message-ID: <522DFCAC.40607@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:51:56 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "keescook@chromium.org" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , "jmorris@namei.org" , "linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] Add BSD-style securelevel support References: <1378741786-18430-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com> <1378741786-18430-2-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com> <522DF6DC.1050303@zytor.com> <1378744207.17982.3.camel@x230.lan> <522DFA93.50308@zytor.com> <1378745082.17982.4.camel@x230.lan> In-Reply-To: <1378745082.17982.4.camel@x230.lan> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 703 Lines: 20 On 09/09/2013 09:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 09:42 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Neither of this tend to be true long time... which leads one back to >> capabilities. > > We can't use capabilities. Doing so breaks existing userspace. > Capabilities don't have to mean "POSIX capabilities"... although the POSIX capability system in Linux really is a massive fail which it would be nice to find some kind of fix for. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/