Re: Capabilities

Andreas Gruenbacher (a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at)
Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:48:59 +0100

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IMHO capabilities can be stored on the same block as the ACL of an inode. We
already have an ACL pointer in ext2 inodes. The on-disk format of the Linux ACL
project at <http://acl.bestbits.at/> already has four reserved 32-bit fields.
These are intended for storing capabilities or similar.

I'm currently working on improving the ACL cache. One of the goals is support
for capabilities.

Andreas

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