Re: [capabilities] Allow normal inheritance for a configurable set of capabilities

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Christoph Lameter (cl@xxxxxxxxx):
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> > We've currently got two proposals.  (Three includig yours;  but I explained my
> > problem with yours earlier this morning -  do appreciate the proposal and
> > the patch though, really, thanks)  It's worth digging into the details of
> > each, but if they end up complicating things then perhaps "dropping
> > capabilities and going with something new" ought to be another proposal.
> 
> Ok that is about the binding to a person and executable?

It's about at least making it per-process(-tree).

> So you think there should be a cap_inheritable mask settable in the caps
> of each file.

No.  I mean,  we have that now.  I just want to require a privileged process
to fill in the pA in the first place.  If people are currently using file
caps "as intended" I don't want behavior to change for them.
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