[Patches] [ python-Patches-1615158 ] POSIX capabilities support

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Patches item #1615158, was opened at 2006-12-13 18:10
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Category: Modules
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Status: Open
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Submitted By: Matt Kern (gj0aqzda)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: POSIX capabilities support

Initial Comment:
Attached is a patch which adds POSIX capabilities support.  The following API functions are supported:

  * cap_clear
  * cap_copy_ext
  * cap_dup
  * cap_from_text
  * cap_get_flag
  * cap_get_proc
  * cap_init
  * cap_set_flag
  * cap_set_proc
  * cap_size
  * cap_to_text

The following API function is supported, but is broken with certain versions of libcap (I am running debian testing's libcap1, version 1.10-14, which has an issue;  I have reported this upstream):
  * cap_copy_int

The following API functions are in there as stubs, but currently are not compiled.  I need access to a machine to test these.  I will probably add autoconf tests for availability of these functions in due course:
  * cap_get_fd
  * cap_get_file
  * cap_set_fd
  * cap_set_file

The patch includes diffs to configure.  My autoconf is however at a different revision to that used on the python trunk.  You may want to re-autoconf configure.in.

I've added a few API tests to test_posix.py.


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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2006-12-16 13:25

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(If you don't want to write LaTeX, it's enough to write the docs in
plaintext, there are a few volunteers who will convert it appropriately.)

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2006-12-16 12:28

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Can you please provide documentation changes as well?

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Comment By: Matt Kern (gj0aqzda)
Date: 2006-12-13 18:12

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I should further add that I have implemented the following API calls as
methods of the new CapabilityState object in addition to the standard
functions:

  * cap_clear
  * cap_copy_ext
  * cap_dup
  * cap_get_flag
  * cap_set_flag
  * cap_set_proc
  * cap_size
  * cap_to_text


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