Re: [PATCH] Exporting capability code/name pairs

From: James Morris
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 05:03:53 EST


On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, KaiGai Kohei wrote:

> > Another issue is that securityfs depends on CONFIG_SECURITY, which might be
> > undesirable, given that capabilities are a standard feature.
>
> We can implement this feature on another pseudo filesystems.
> Do you think what filesystem is the best candidate?
> I prefer procfs or sysfs instead.

Sysfs makes more sense, as this information is system-wide and does not
relate to specific processes.


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