Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:13:09 -0800
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       ast@domdv.de, rlrevell@joe-job.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       mingo@elte.hu, joq@io.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:06:02PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:50:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >  Can we use capabilities
> > 
> > capabilities don't work :(
> > 
> > 	http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.0/0502.html
> 
> well, maybe it is time to fix them ..
> 
> I already proposed some methods to extend them,
> and I'm also willing to dig into the various things
> required to allow to use the capability system for
> what it was intended.

You can't fix them without changing the semantics for existing users
in ways they didn't expect. It could be done with a new personality flag,
but..

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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