On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > this patch series implements support for ambient capabilities in > setpriv(1). Ambient capabilities have been implemented with Linux > 4.3 by Andy Lutomirski [1]. Quoting from capabilities(7): > > This is a set of capabilities that are preserved across an > execve(2) of a program that is not privileged. > > The patches are inspired and squarely based on published patches > for util-linux by Andy [2]. As these commits seem to never have > been upstreamed, I've contacted Andy a few days ago whether he > intends to do so in the near future, but got no response. Anyway, > as I would like to have ambient capabilities available in > setpriv, I took up the baton and wrote this patch series. Sorry, was swamped. I very much appreciate your doing this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
