From: cg@cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot)
Date: 4 Dec 2002 18:58:28 +0100
Subject: Re: [e-lang] capability myths demolished!

Ka-Ping Yee <ping@zesty.ca> said:
>It should be emphasized that these are not "capabilities" at all.
>They are just a list of privileges that have been mistakenly
>labelled "capabilities".  
>
You're right, I should have chosen my wording more carefully.  Especially
'gives itself the capability' was wrong - what the program in fact does, it
drop all capabilities except for the 'bind to low port' one; you cannot obtain
capabilities under Linux, not even as root.
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