Re: [patch 2.1.97] more capabilities support

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:29:29 +0100 (BST)


On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> As such, we should _allow_ the capability to raise other capabilities. If
> you don't like that capability, you can just make sure that it is cleared
> at boot for everybody, and then nobody can inherit it and nobody can ever
> get it any other way either (as nobody has the capability to raise the
> capability).

Excellent, sounds like the "bounding set" to me...

Chris

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