From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261230AbVAGBQs (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:16:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261212AbVAGBQl (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:16:41 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:49816 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261230AbVAGBNt (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:13:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:13:09 -0800 From: Matt Mackall To: Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , ast@domdv.de, rlrevell@joe-job.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, joq@io.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM Message-ID: <20050107011309.GB2995@waste.org> References: <1104374603.9732.32.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050103140359.GA19976@infradead.org> <1104862614.8255.1.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050104182010.GA15254@infradead.org> <1104865034.8346.4.camel@krustophenia.net> <41DB4476.8080400@domdv.de> <1104898693.24187.162.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050104215010.7f32590e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050105120601.GA8730@mail.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050105120601.GA8730@mail.13thfloor.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:06:02PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:50:10PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > Can we use capabilities > > > > capabilities don't work :( > > > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.0/0502.html > > well, maybe it is time to fix them .. > > I already proposed some methods to extend them, > and I'm also willing to dig into the various things > required to allow to use the capability system for > what it was intended. You can't fix them without changing the semantics for existing users in ways they didn't expect. It could be done with a new personality flag, but.. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.