Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753830AbdLSPeC (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:34:02 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:35810 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753578AbdLSPdz (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:33:55 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBott6cliGcvMms3FgvmrqtOSju/nkDYP3U89bLVko/QXxuxUxchL6iUgN/jFYpzIwZuKULS9oHcV9ZyITeZjs8g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20171129175849.GC14545@mail.hallyn.com> References: <20171129175849.GC14545@mail.hallyn.com> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:33:33 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Documentation patch for namespaced file capabilities To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Amir Goldstein , Stefan Berger , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linux Containers , lkp@01.org, xiaolong.ye@intel.com, linux-kernel , Mimi Zohar , Tycho Andersen , James Bottomley , christian.brauner@mailbox.org, Vivek Goyal , LSM List , Casey Schaufler , Linux API Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1275 Lines: 44 Hi Serge, On 29 November 2017 at 18:58, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) (mtk.manpages@gmail.com): >> Hi Serge, >> >> At the moment man-pages lacks documentation of the namespaced file >> capability feature that you added with commit >> 8db6c34f1dbc8e06aa016a9b829b06902c3e1340. Would you be able to send a >> patch describing the feature? > > Sorry. I'm adding this to my todo list, so I should get to it soon. A gentle ping... Cheers, Michael >> Presumably, the patch would be for the capabilities(7) page (or >> perhaps for the user_namespaces(7) page, if that seems more >> appropriate), As well as documenting the semantics, it would be good >> to include an example or two of the notation that is used for the >> xattr names. >> >> Presumably also there will be some changes in userspace tools >> (setcap/getcap?). Do you know anything about what's happening there? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael >> >> >> -- >> Michael Kerrisk >> Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ >> Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/