Re: [PATCH] 2.6.13: Filesystem capabilities 0.16

From: Nix
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 08:47:36 EST


On 1 Sep 2005, Olaf Dietsche murmured woefully:
> This patch implements filesystem capabilities. It allows to run
> privileged executables without the need for suid root.

Is there some reason why this doesn't keep its capability data in
xattrs?

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