From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: Documentation patch for namespaced file capabilities
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:58:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171129175849.GC14545@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgNAkiAeqbD=G6hnExh4cC84nA2mU6xdLzzS0F2x1wviEPgHg@mail.gmail.com>
Quoting Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) (mtk.manpages@gmail.com):
> Hi Serge,
>
> At the moment man-pages lacks documentation of the namespaced file
> capability feature that you added with commit
> 8db6c34f1dbc8e06aa016a9b829b06902c3e1340. Would you be able to send a
> patch describing the feature?
Sorry. I'm adding this to my todo list, so I should get to it soon.
> Presumably, the patch would be for the capabilities(7) page (or
> perhaps for the user_namespaces(7) page, if that seems more
> appropriate), As well as documenting the semantics, it would be good
> to include an example or two of the notation that is used for the
> xattr names.
>
> Presumably also there will be some changes in userspace tools
> (setcap/getcap?). Do you know anything about what's happening there?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
> --
> Michael Kerrisk
> Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
> Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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2017-11-20 9:36 Documentation patch for namespaced file capabilities Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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2017-11-20 16:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-11-29 17:58 ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2017-12-19 15:33 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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