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From: Al Viro
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into the cred struct
Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - 11:23 am

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, 9:17 am)
[PATCH 1/3] CRED: Introduce a COW credentials record, David Howells, (Wed Sep 19, 9:17 am)
[PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move pa ..., David Howells, (Wed Sep 19, 9:18 am)
[PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into the ..., David Howells, (Wed Sep 19, 9:18 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., Casey Schaufler, (Wed Sep 19, 10:28 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., David Howells, (Wed Sep 19, 3:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into ..., Andrew Morgan, (Wed Sep 19, 9:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into ..., David Howells, (Thu Sep 20, 1:15 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into ..., Trond Myklebust, (Thu Sep 20, 6:38 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into ..., Casey Schaufler, (Thu Sep 20, 8:36 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into ..., Trond Myklebust, (Thu Sep 20, 9:09 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., Casey Schaufler, (Thu Sep 20, 9:31 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., David Howells, (Thu Sep 20, 10:17 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., David Howells, (Thu Sep 20, 10:33 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., Serge E. Hallyn, (Mon Sep 24, 7:00 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., Stephen Smalley, (Mon Sep 24, 7:21 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., Serge E. Hallyn, (Mon Sep 24, 8:35 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., David Howells, (Mon Sep 24, 8:52 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., David Howells, (Wed Sep 26, 6:30 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., Stephen Smalley, (Wed Sep 26, 7:14 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and mov ..., Casey Schaufler, (Wed Sep 26, 7:58 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into ..., Al Viro, (Wed Sep 26, 11:23 am)