Documentation patch for namespaced file capabilities
Serge E. Hallyn
serge at hallyn.com
Wed Nov 29 17:58:49 UTC 2017
Quoting Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) (mtk.manpages at gmail.com):
> Hi Serge,
>
> At the moment man-pages lacks documentation of the namespaced file
> capability feature that you added with commit
> 8db6c34f1dbc8e06aa016a9b829b06902c3e1340. Would you be able to send a
> patch describing the feature?
Sorry. I'm adding this to my todo list, so I should get to it soon.
> Presumably, the patch would be for the capabilities(7) page (or
> perhaps for the user_namespaces(7) page, if that seems more
> appropriate), As well as documenting the semantics, it would be good
> to include an example or two of the notation that is used for the
> xattr names.
>
> Presumably also there will be some changes in userspace tools
> (setcap/getcap?). Do you know anything about what's happening there?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
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> Michael Kerrisk
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