Re: [PATCH] capabilities: Ambient capability set V1

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 02:13:00PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> > Andrew Morgan was against that.  What if we changed
> >
> > pE' = pP' & (fE | pA)
> >
> > to
> >
> > 	if (pA)
> > 		pE' = pP' & fE
> > 	else
> > 		pE' = pP'
> >
> 
> Same problem as before. The ambient bits will not be set in pE'.

And what if I weren't scatterbrained and we did 

 	if (pA)
 		pE' = pP'
 	else
 		pE' = pP' & fE

All pP' bits would be set in pE'.
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