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Re: PATCH: 3.1.6-pws-2: cap_free

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Stephenson)
Subject: Re: PATCH: 3.1.6-pws-2: cap_free
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:50:17 +0100 (BST)
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In-reply-to: <9909010800.AA16059@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Peter Stephenson at "Sep 1, 1999 10: 0: 7 am"
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Peter Stephenson wrote:
>I've finally compiled on a system with POSIX capability sets.  This one
>definitely needs cap_free to get the value returned from cap_get_proc, not
>a pointer to it.  If there are implementations which do this the other way,
>we have problems.

When I wrote that code, I was working from an alpha version of the Linux
libcap (which I was co-writing), which was based on a not-entirely-clear
summary of a draft of POSIX.6.  I wouldn't be surprised if that's how
it's supposed to be.

-zefram

References:
- PATCH: 3.1.6-pws-2: cap_free
  - From: Peter Stephenson

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