Re: Capabilities

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 09:35:00 EST


Hi,

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:25:49 -0500, willy@thepuffingroup.com said:

> Ted, one thing we didn't discuss was handling capabilities in much the
> same way as you proposed for ACLs --- a large number of programs want
> very similar capability sets.

If you are serious about adding some form of ACL support, then doing
DMAPI at the same time would be a great benefit. DMAPI (the Data
Migration API) has an optional (but highly desirable) interface for
storing arbitrary migration information alongside inodes, under
application control.

--Stephen

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