Re: [PATCH 01/12] Add BSD-style securelevel support

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On 09/09/2013 09:44 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 09:42 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Neither of this tend to be true long time... which leads one back to
>> capabilities.
> 
> We can't use capabilities. Doing so breaks existing userspace.
> 

Capabilities don't have to mean "POSIX capabilities"... although the
POSIX capability system in Linux really is a massive fail which it would
be nice to find some kind of fix for.

	-hpa

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