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From: Al Viro <viro@...>
To: Andrew Morgan <morgan@...>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...>, <hch@...>, <Trond.Myklebust@...>, <sds@...>, <casey@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <selinux@...>, <linux-security-module@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into the cred struct
Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 2:23 pm

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 09:11:26PM -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote:

Umm...  It would become simpler (which is a damn good thing - less PITA
with update_current_cred), but it would be still needed.

FWIW, dropping that support would be a Good Thing(tm), as far as I'm
concerned.  _Why_ do we want that, anyway, and how much userland code
is able to cope with that in sane way?
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[PATCH 0/3] Introduce credential record, David Howells, (Wed Sep 19, 12:17 pm)
[PATCH 1/3] CRED: Introduce a COW credentials record, David Howells, (Wed Sep 19, 12:17 pm)
[PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move part..., David Howells, (Wed Sep 19, 12:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., Serge E. Hallyn, (Mon Sep 24, 10:00 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., Stephen Smalley, (Mon Sep 24, 10:21 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., David Howells, (Wed Sep 26, 9:30 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., Casey Schaufler, (Wed Sep 26, 10:58 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., Stephen Smalley, (Wed Sep 26, 10:14 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., Serge E. Hallyn, (Mon Sep 24, 11:35 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., David Howells, (Mon Sep 24, 11:52 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., Casey Schaufler, (Wed Sep 19, 1:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., David Howells, (Wed Sep 19, 6:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., Casey Schaufler, (Thu Sep 20, 12:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., David Howells, (Thu Sep 20, 1:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move ..., David Howells, (Thu Sep 20, 1:33 pm)
[PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into the c..., David Howells, (Wed Sep 19, 12:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into t..., Andrew Morgan, (Thu Sep 20, 12:11 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into t..., Al Viro, (Wed Sep 26, 2:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into t..., Trond Myklebust, (Thu Sep 20, 9:38 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into t..., Casey Schaufler, (Thu Sep 20, 11:36 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into t..., Trond Myklebust, (Thu Sep 20, 12:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into t..., David Howells, (Thu Sep 20, 4:15 am)