From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1772 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Igmar Palsenberg Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Implementation of sys/capabilities.h Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:16:26 +0200 Message-ID: <71934712-6162-4358-A8DA-FAE169BE5D41@palsenberg.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.0 \(1486\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346059003 27237 80.91.229.3 (27 Aug 2012 09:16:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:16:43 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1773-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Aug 27 11:16:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T5vR3-0004Bc-FO for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:16:41 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7514 invoked by uid 550); 27 Aug 2012 09:16:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 7506 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2012 09:16:38 -0000 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1486) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1772 Archived-At: Hi, I'm in the works of implementing capability support within musl. This we = need to implement if you ask me :=20 cap_init() cap_free() cap_dup() cap_get_flag() cap_set_flag() cap_clear() cap_get_proc() cap_set_proc() Things we should not implemented :=20 cap_get_fd() cap_get_file() cap_set_fd() cap_set_file() This is due their extreme limited use case (see the glibc manual pages) To ugly to even consider :=20 cap_from_text() cap_to_text() Any thoughts on this ? Regards, Igmar=