Re: Capabilities

[Bas Wijnen]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 04:33:14PM -0300, Leonardo Pereira wrote:
> When you run a program, you can give a capabilitie to it and it will be able
> to use something or open some files. But what will happen if I use an
> interpreter? how the system will know what capabilities the interpreted
> program will have?

I'm not sure if I understand your question.  An interpreter will need a
(read-only) capability to the script it's supposed to execute.  Further, it
just receives extra capabilities (for a (possibly private) file system, for
example) just like any other process does.  If it's a POSIX process (so it
doesn't know about capabilities), then this is done by the POSIX layer (I
think of it as a library, but it may end up to be something else), which
probably passes them on as files which can be opened or so.

Does that answer your question?

Bas

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