Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933472AbcKYUnu (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2016 15:43:50 -0500 Received: from mail-wj0-f193.google.com ([209.85.210.193]:36853 "EHLO mail-wj0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932736AbcKYUnk (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Nov 2016 15:43:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] user-namespaced file capabilities - now with even more magic To: "Serge E. Hallyn" References: <20161119151739.GA16398@mail.hallyn.com> <8acb3b53-d5eb-0524-2c57-31fcb7e736d9@gmail.com> <20161124225246.GA16648@mail.hallyn.com> <20161125175009.GA326@mail.hallyn.com> Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, "Eric W. Biederman" , Seth Forshee , lkml , linux-api@vger.kernel.org From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <0d1a7bc4-2e9c-73ba-11fb-f233e790b3a6@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:43:31 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161125175009.GA326@mail.hallyn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1499 Lines: 45 On 11/25/2016 06:50 PM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 09:33:50AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hi Serge, >> >> On 11/24/2016 11:52 PM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >>> Quoting Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) (mtk.manpages@gmail.com): >> >> [...] >> >>>> Could we have a man-pages patch for this feature? Presumably for >>>> user_namespaces(7) or capabilities(7). >>> >>> capabilities.7 doesn't actually mention anything about user namespaces >>> right now. >> >> True. There's really just this: >> >> Interaction with user namespaces >> For a discussion of the interaction of capabilities and user >> namespaces, see user_namespaces(7). >> >>> I'll come up with a patch for both I think. Do you have a >>> deadline for a new release coming up? >> >> No deadlines as such. The last couple of years, as a sort of >> experiment, I've fallen into the same release cycle as the kernel >> (typically making a release in the week or so after the kernel release), >> and I am even using a similar numbering scheme. Ideally, the man-pages >> patch would go into the release that corresponds to the kernel release >> that makes the change. > > Cool - I'll write something up in the next few weeks. Obviously, the sooner you write it, the sooner others may read--and perhaps test--it. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/