Re: [PATCH] capabilities, take 3 (Re: [PATCH] capabilites, take 2)

[Chris Wright]

* Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx (Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx) wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2004 22:04:15 PDT, Chris Wright said:
> 
> > Well, I wonder what IRIX does?  They support capabilities and had a
> > reasonable sized hand in the draft.  No point in making it impossible
> > to port apps.  It's not that I'm a strong fan of Posix caps, but
> > compatibility (even with a partially complete draft) with defacto
> > standards is not entirely unreasonable.
> 
> The IRIX 6.5 manpage says:

Thanks.

OK, this is precisely POSIX as I expected.  No surprise given the folks
involved.

<snip manpage>

> Note that Irix has *3* capability vectors attached to a file....

This is what POSIX specifies (with as much authority as a withdrawn spec
has ;-)

thanks,
-chris
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