Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] Adding FreeBSD's Capsicum security framework (part 1)

From: David Drysdale
Date: Mon Jul 07 2014 - 10:11:42 EST


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Il 07/07/2014 12:29, David Drysdale ha scritto:
>> Capsicum capabilities are associated with the file descriptor (a la
>> F_GETFD), not the open file itself -- different FDs with different
>> associated rights can map to the same underlying open file.
>
>
> Good to know, thanks. I suppose you have testcases that cover this.
>
> Paolo

Yeah, there's lots of tests at:
https://github.com/google/capsicum-test
(which is in a separate repo so it's easy to run against
FreeBSD as well as the Linux code); in particular
https://github.com/google/capsicum-test/blob/dev/capability-fd.cc
has various interactions of capability FDs.
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