Re: Filesystem Capabilities in 2.6?

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 22:23:11 EST


On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> <shrug> that can be done without doing anything to filesystem.
> Namely, turn current "nosuid" of vfsmount into a mask of capabilities.
> Then use bindings instead of links.

I like that idea. It's very explicit, and clearly name-based, and we do
have 99% of the support for it already.

                Linus

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