Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:04:25 -0800
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: "Jack O'Quin" <jack.oquin@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com>,
       Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, rlrevell@joe-job.com,
       Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:51:44PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> [direct reply bounced, resending via gmail]
> 
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:35:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm2/
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > - Added the mlock and !SCHED_OTHER Linux Security Module for the audio guys.
> > > >   It seems that nothing else is going to come along and this is completely
> > > >   encapsulated.
> > > 
> > > Even if we accept a module that grants capabilities to groups this
> > > isn't fine yet because it only supports two specific capabilities
> > > (and even those two in different ways!) instead of adding generic
> > > support to bind capabilities to groups.
> > 
> > I'm sure that got discussed somewhere in the 1000 emails which flew past
> > last time.  Jack?
> 
> [adding cc: for the main discussion participants]
> 
> Most people felt that a more general capabilities module would be nice
> to have.  But, no one offered any code, or volunteered to work on it.

What happened to the RT rlimit code from Chris?

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