Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10748] New: dhclient fails to run; capabilities error

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Stephen Smalley [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 09:38 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:

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Which means that he is using the dummy security module.
And it appears that a prior commit moved KEEPCAPS handling from
core prctl() to cap_task_prctl(), but didn't replicate it in
the dummy_task_prctl().

The dummy module really needs to die.

Question for the bug reporter:  did you really mean to build a kernel
without capabilities support?  Surprise!  They don't really work when
disabled.

No; I was just trying out some random configs. This config worked till
.25 properly though.

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