Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:35:13 -0500
From: serue@us.ibm.com
To: Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.linux-kernel@olafdietsche.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.13: Filesystem capabilities 0.16
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Or, has there been any communication between yourself and
Nicholas Hans Simmonds, who posted his xattr-based fscaps
patch in july (first posting july 2)?

thanks,
-serge

Quoting Nix (nix@esperi.org.uk):
> On 1 Sep 2005, Olaf Dietsche murmured woefully:
> > This patch implements filesystem capabilities. It allows to run
> > privileged executables without the need for suid root.
> 
> Is there some reason why this doesn't keep its capability data in
> xattrs?
> 
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