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Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> Does that explain it?
>
> Yes, thanks, but then it still could come in handy to have fE be a full
> bitset, so the application gets some eff caps automatically, while
> others it has to manually set...
[We touched on this a number of emails back.]
If an application is capability aware, it can manipulate its own
capabilities and should have fE=0.
If an application is not capability aware, it needs to have *all* of its
capabilities enabled at exec() time. Otherwise, it won't work.
The only reason for having an fE bitmap is to allow a capability-aware
program (you really trust to do its privileged operations carefully) to
be lazy and get some of its capabilities raised for free. Perhaps you
can clarify why this is a desirable thing? :-)
Cheers
Andrew
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