Re: [PATCH 1/5] setpriv: introduce indirection for `capng_type` enum

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On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> wrote:
> The capng_type is used to distinguish the different types of capability
> sets, that is the effective, inheratibale, permitted capabilities as
> well as the capability bounding set. In Linux 4.3, a new set of
> capabilities was introduced with ambient capabilities. Unfortunately,
> libcap-ng does not provide any support for these kind of capabilities
> and as such, we will have to roll our own support.
>
> As a first step, we introduce an indirection for the `capng_type` enum,
> allowing us to add the ambient capability type later on. Right now, no
> functional change is expected from this change and in fact, each of the
> newly introduce enums should have the same value as respective enum of
> libcap-ng.

Looks good to me.
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