On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > If you set ambient caps and then run a setuid program (without > no_new_privs), then the ambient set *must* be cleared by the kernel > because that's what the setuid program expects. Yes, the whole Why would a setuid program expect that? I'd say we expect the ambient set to remain in effect. What would break if the ambient set would stay active? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html