Re: capabilities patch (v 0.1)

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:26:21 +0200, David Madore said:

> * Second, a much more extensive change, the patch introduces a third
> set of capabilities for every process, the "bounding" set.  Normally
> the bounding set has every capability in it

How is this different in semantics from the existing 'permitted' capset?

include/linux/capabilities.h:

typedef struct __user_cap_data_struct {
        __u32 effective;
        __u32 permitted;
        __u32 inheritable;
} __user *cap_user_data_t;

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