Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1] | Date | Mon, 31 May 1999 02:34:12 +0200 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.990525183140.5682A-100000@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> you wrote: > return -EACCES: advantage: Old apps know what happened. Disadvantage: New > apps are unsure.
Unsure about what? I think a application telling me "not enough permissions for XXXX" does not need to tell me that cap or uid is wrong. The application still can look at uid and current capability set if the application wants to be more verbose (with a risk not catching local modified kernels).
Greetings Bernd
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