On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 01:43:10PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > 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. No problem, and thanks for having a look! Patrick
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