CAPs

[Aleph One]

On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 07:34:11PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> The real barrier to plain-old-bitwise capabilities is getting file system
> integration--as I understand it, this has held up the Linux folks.  I
> believe they have all the code in a kernel, but that Ext2fs doesn't have
> the meta-data available.

I am suprised no one has coded a capd deamon that maintains a filename 
(or inode) to capabilities mapping that the kernel can query. It would
get rid of the filesystem problem until cap in ext2fs get implemented.

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