From: Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Implementation of sys/capabilities.h
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:18:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK4o1WytU6BZ+8btvWU3-g+KXwzAz-As0mWxHLHPSSUCY15byA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71934712-6162-4358-A8DA-FAE169BE5D41@palsenberg.com>
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Igmar Palsenberg <musl@palsenberg.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the works of implementing capability support within musl. This we need to implement if you ask me :
>
> cap_init()
> cap_free()
> cap_dup()
> cap_get_flag()
> cap_set_flag()
> cap_clear()
> cap_get_proc()
> cap_set_proc()
Why in Musl out of interest? They are not in other libc's, and people
expect to link to libcap for them surely. And some people argue that
the interfaces are not very well designed (indeed libcap seems to be
adding extra ones not in the withdrawn posix draft), eg see
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/
Justin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-27 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-27 9:16 Igmar Palsenberg
2012-08-27 10:18 ` Justin Cormack [this message]
2012-08-27 10:23 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2012-08-27 11:26 ` Justin Cormack
2012-08-27 11:38 ` Igmar Palsenberg
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