Re: [RFC] capabilities: Ambient capabilities

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> Also, in my model you can do:
>
> $ sudo capset cap_whatever=eip something
> $ ./something
>
> and the program can make its cap be ambient and run a helper.  In the
> CAP_SETPCAP model, that doesn't work.

Dont see too much difference in setting caps and CAP_SETPCAP on
"./something" to allow it to set the ambient caps.
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