Re: libcap-ng upcoming change

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On Monday, December 18, 2023 1:40:55 PM EST Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 at 18:18, Steve Grubb <sgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I wanted to ask about the right tactic to make a change in Fedora 40.
> > Libcap-
> > ng is ready for a new release. I want to remove a Fedora only patch that
> > allows an errant call to capng_apply to succeed.
> 
> BTW libcap-ng.
> Is there any plan to get rid of libcap?🤔

Not really. Just the same as we have at least 3 TLS implementations, we also 
have more than 1 API for capabilities manipulation. The two projects have 
entirely different goals. libcap is meant to be a thin veneer over the raw 
kernel API. Libcap-ng is meant to make using capabilities simple.

-Steve

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