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capsicum: briefly describe capabilities in man page
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Authored by emaste on Apr 18 2022, 5:30 PM.
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Use an excerpt from David Chisnall's mailing list response to provide a very brief introduction to capabilities.

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emaste requested review of this revision.Apr 18 2022, 5:30 PM
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emaste added a comment.Apr 18 2022, 5:55 PM

Over time I'd like to really flesh out capsicum.4 but these two sentences from David's mail seemed to be a great concise description that IMO was missing in the man page. mail: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2022-April/001028.html

oshogbo accepted this revision.Apr 18 2022, 8:52 PM
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IMHO its on point.
Please remember to bump Dd.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 18 2022, 8:52 PM
emaste added a subscriber: bapt.Apr 19 2022, 7:51 PM

Huh the mailing list archive URLs changed, it is now https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2022-April/001032.html
@bapt any idea?

Closed by commit rG1f568792c615: capsicum: briefly describe capabilities in man page (authored by emaste). · Explain WhyApr 19 2022, 7:53 PM
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bapt added a comment.Apr 20 2022, 7:28 AM

as for the URL, this is weird, I will investigate, thank you for reporting.

emaste added a commit: rG364a69a529b2: capsicum: briefly describe capabilities in man page.Apr 26 2022, 12:55 AM
emaste added a commit: rG870735c46b15: capsicum: briefly describe capabilities in man page.

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