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On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 11:20:13PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the input, but I don't think it's quite that clear-cut and
> I don't have a good answer. There should be some way to access
> capabilities without needing an ugly library which allocates dynamic
> memory to report the current capability set (yes, libcap is THAT bad),
> but the sys/capabilities.h interfaces are also a complete mess...
> 

Why not replace libcap instead of doing this in musl?