Re: Securelevel bitmap patch

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:37:17 +0100 (BST)


> Are you being dense on purpose?

No I was trying to work out if you were. No problem

> Again, I don't see your points. Capability bitmasks are _obviously_ a true
> superset of the BSD security levels, so any security argument for a BSD
> securitylevel applies equally for capabilities. And I have already shown
> you two real-world cases where capabilities can be used for things that
> the BSD securitylevels simply have no way of handling at all.

Ok so merge the capabilities patch instead. Fine by me.

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