Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 May 1999 23:41:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1] |
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On Sun, 16 May 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > You want to allow shellscripts with special powers?!?!?
I may want to _strip_ shellscripts of power.
The ELF notes way doesn't allow that.
I may want to give special power to certain Javascripts (assuming I'd ever trust the java engine itself). I do _not_ consider it acceptable to give all powers to the java interpreter in general, but I _do_ consider it acceptable to give special capabilities to certain scripts.
The ELF notes way doesn't allow that.
I may have anoter safe scripting language. Perl comes to mind. And I may want to have scripts that have special privileges, installed to do system administration.
The ELF notes way doesn't allow that.
Do you start to see a pattern here now? It's not about ELF. It's about everything ELSE. It's about doing something right, and not getting stuck with a bad decision forever.
Linus
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