Re: [PATCH 2/3] p9auth: add CAP_GRANT_ID to authorize use of/dev/caphash

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:28:15PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> Granting userid capabilities to another task is a dangerous
> privilege.  Don't just let file permissions authorize it.
> Define CAP_GRANT_ID as a new capability needed to write to
> /dev/caphash.

Isn't there some man page that also needs to be updated when you add
something like this to the user/kernel api?

thanks,

greg k-h
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