On Mon, 23 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > I do not see a problem with dropping privilege since the ambient set > > is supposed to be preserved across a drop of priviledge. > > Because you're tricking the program into thinking it has dropped > the privilege, when in fact it has not. So the cap was dropped from the cap perm set but it is still active in the ambient set? -- 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