On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 03:09:48PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > > Same problem as before. The ambient bits will not be set in pE'. > > > > And what if I weren't scatterbrained and we did > > > > if (pA) > > pE' = pP' > > else > > pE' = pP' & fE > > > > All pP' bits would be set in pE'. > > Ok and the non ambient case would break because fE is not available? > Doesnt this reduce to > > pE' = pP' > > in either case? No. fE is not "not available". If you set it with setcap, you *should* (if i'm tinking right) find fE full when calculating the new capability sets, because of magic_etc. -- 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
