Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 23:41:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> Subject: Re: Capabilities done right [diff against 2.3.1] On Sun, 16 May 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > You want to allow shellscripts with special powers?!?!? I may want to _strip_ shellscripts of power. The ELF notes way doesn't allow that. I may want to give special power to certain Javascripts (assuming I'd ever trust the java engine itself). I do _not_ consider it acceptable to give all powers to the java interpreter in general, but I _do_ consider it acceptable to give special capabilities to certain scripts. The ELF notes way doesn't allow that. I may have anoter safe scripting language. Perl comes to mind. And I may want to have scripts that have special privileges, installed to do system administration. The ELF notes way doesn't allow that. Do you start to see a pattern here now? It's not about ELF. It's about everything ELSE. It's about doing something right, and not getting stuck with a bad decision forever. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/