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> On platforms that provides this feature, should we make it mandatory
> for
> v3.2 ("trunk")? I think it'd simplify things, and avoid bug reports /
> problems related to it. Granted, we still have to clean up our code

That's two platforms right now: Solaris and Linux, and
right now our code doesn't use Solaris Privileges yet.

> mess
> here (with duplicated code in 2-3 places), but keeping libcap
> optional
> has little to gain I think (it's available pretty much on any
> reasonably
> modern Linux, including old distros such as Fedora Core 7).
>
> This would require libcap and libcap-devel (or libcap-dev) on Linux
> platforms at least.

It probably makes more sense to do that, rather than
use the raw syscalls. It still doesn't safe use from
"duplicating" code for each platform. Or, for both.

> Thoughts?

Anyone know how to do this on FreeBSD?

> -- Leif

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