CAPs

[Aleph One]

On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:16:40PM -0700, James Buster wrote:
> 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.

That is what caches are for. You can implement a simple cache like
the name cache in the kernel.

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