[issue1615158] POSIX capabilities support

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> The development headers for these are not installed by default on
> some distributions.

This is not an issue at all - that's what autoconf is for.

> Adding this to the posix module would enforce linking with lcap and
> lattr always.

That's a more serious problem, IMO; I think some people won't like the
additional dependency.

> I think it would be better if they are added to a separate module

Can you propose a name for the module?

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