> SUMMARY (about capabilities)
>
> It may sound non-unix'ish, but it's cool. It may be future of unix
> systems, not only mainframes =] What it needs - a little bit better
> software design (in many applications I found {if (getuid()!=0) DIE("!");}
> so they should be rewritten to check if they are capable to do their job.
IMHO : they should just do what they want and check for errors like
EPERM .
No need for trying to be "smart" and simulate the result that the kernel
will give you anyway ( and it will be correct too :-)
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