CAPs

Andrew Morgan morgan at transmeta.com
Fri Oct 1 01:07:27 GMT 1999


James Buster 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 in complete agreement with this.

> The kernel is completely missing inherited or permitted capability
> vectors.

Since I contributed to its implementation, I'm pretty confused by this
assertion. Could you explain in a little more detail?

Thanks

Andrew
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