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Subject: Re: [capabilities] Allow normal inheritance for a configurable set
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> None of this could address the problem here, though: if I hold a
> capability and I want to pass that capability to an exec'd helper, I
> shouldn't need the fs's help to do this.

Amen!