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POSIX "capabilities" are fatally flawed in a way that real capabilities are not

POSIX "capabilities" are fatally flawed in a way that real capabilities are not

Posted Dec 7, 2006 19:33 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
In reply to: POSIX "capabilities" are fatally flawed in a way that real capabilities are not by zooko
Parent article: File-based capabilities

Follow-up to self for editing: I wrote "increased granularity of protection", but I meant "finer-grained", rather than "larger-grained". I hope the meaning is now clear.


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