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Date: Tue,  6 May 2008 15:01:11 -0500
From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: weigelt@metux.de, "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p/linux factotum port
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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>
>  Hi folks,
>
>  is anyone already working on an factotum port to p9p or native Linux ?
>
>  I've just wrote a patch to Linux kernel which allows changing
>  another process' privileges (uid, etc). The /dev/caphash and
>  /dev/capuse devices (IMHO) can be simulated from userspace.
>

Kernel versions of these devices have been done by Ashwin Ganti.
There wasn iwp9 paper about it.

              -eric