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Authored by shubh on Aug 30 2020, 4:48 PM.
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Details

Summary

Used the cap_fileargs to open the files in capability mode.

file <multiple argument of files>

works in capability mode

This patch has a limitation:

  • file -f a.txt where a.txt has a list of files, doesn't work in capability mode
Test Plan

ktrace file a.txt
kdump | grep cap

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shubh requested review of this revision.Aug 30 2020, 4:48 PM
delphij added a subscriber: delphij.

Please be sure to talk with upstream (Christos) before making changes.

contrib/file/src/file.c
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I'm not sure if I'm fun of this.
Why we have two diffrent place to enter capability mode?
We can't enter one time like seccomp above?