On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/15/2016 11:41 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> On 12/15/2016 05:29 PM, Casey Schaufler wrote: >>> CAP_WAKE_ALARM could readily be CAP_TIME. >> Actually, I don't quite understand what you mean with that sentence. >> Could you elaborate? > > Should have said CAP_SYS_TIME > > Setting an alarm could be considered a time management function, > depending on what it actually does. Just a nit here. CAP_WAKE_ALARM is more about the privilege of waking a system from suspend, while CAP_SYS_TIME covers the ability to set the time. One wouldn't necessarily want to give applications which could wake a system up the capability to also set the time. thanks -john -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
