From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" Subject: Re: Documentation patch for namespaced file capabilities Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:58:49 -0600 Message-ID: <20171129175849.GC14545@mail.hallyn.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" , Amir Goldstein , Stefan Berger , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linux Containers , lkp@01.org, xiaolong.ye@intel.com, linux-kernel , Mimi Zohar , Tycho Andersen , James Bottomley , christian.brauner@mailbox.org, Vivek Goyal , LSM List , Casey Schaufler , Linux API List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org 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/