> > You'll get that when the filesystem support for capabilities goes in.
>
> Filesystems without capabilities will exist for a _long_ time, and
> people will want to be able to use them for setuid root programs. How
> about diskless clients mounting their root filesystem over NFS?
Elfcap (http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/elfcap.html) solves
that nicely.
Pavel
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