CAPs

[James Buster]

On Sep 30,  6:16pm, Aleph One wrote:
} 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.

It would be slug-slow, for one thing, since every exec must check
for capability sets.

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