Re: Is CAP_SYS_ADMIN checked by every program !?

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:35:06 EST, Kyle Moffett said:

> Yes, whenever anything on the computer, including the kernel, checks if 
> a program
> has a capability bit set, it will print out whether or not it does in 
> the dmesg.  Why
> does that matter?

If you actually log your kernel messages it can matter, if every single
process suddenly starts dumping a line in your syslogs, especially on a
busy system...

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