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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:desrt@desrt.ca" title="desrt <desrt@desrt.ca>"> <span class="fn">desrt</span></a>
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title="REOPENED --- - pulseaudio's use of sys/capability.h is non-POSIX"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72580">bug 72580</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="REOPENED --- - pulseaudio's use of sys/capability.h is non-POSIX"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72580#c11">Comment # 11</a>
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title="REOPENED --- - pulseaudio's use of sys/capability.h is non-POSIX"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72580">bug 72580</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:desrt@desrt.ca" title="desrt <desrt@desrt.ca>"> <span class="fn">desrt</span></a>
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<pre>So this patch is not right.
I assumed from my reading of the Linux code ("cap_clear()...") that it was
clearing all capabilities of the process when in fact it is only clearing the
"special to root" capabilities.
The FreeBSD version of the code indeed clears _all_ capabilities beyond ones
that the process already has (ie: cannot open any new files, create sockets,
etc.)
This has a pretty obvious adverse effect on pulseaudio's ability to do what it
needs to do -- indeed, it bombs out pretty quickly due to an inability to read
its own config file.
We need to find out if we can drop the special-to-root caps on FreeBSD without
the others. My initial research into this makes it look like it may not be
possible...</pre>
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