Re: A Plumber???s Wish List for Linux

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 11.10.11 08:49, Andrew G. Morgan (morgan@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> 
> The benefit of Kai Gai's patch was that it exported the actual names
> of the capabilities rather than have them only stored in libcap.
> 
> It is possible to use CAP_IS_SUPPORTED(cap) (in libcap-2.21) to figure
> out the maximum capability supported by the running kernel.
> 
>   https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/release-notes-for-libcap

Oh, hmm, interesting. I have now changed my code to make use of this,
but I can't say it's pretty, because I basically have to search linearly
for the highest capability supported if that's what I want to know.

So, I guess this solves the problem for now, but I'd still like to see a
proper API for this.

Anyway, thanks for the pointer,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
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