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authorSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>2013-07-23 20:18:53 +0200
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2013-08-31 08:44:09 +0200
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parentpidns: Don't have unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) imply CLONE_THREAD (diff)
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capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged
We allow task A to change B's nice level if it has a supserset of B's privileges, or of it has CAP_SYS_NICE. Also allow it if A has CAP_SYS_NICE with respect to B - meaning it is root in the same namespace, or it created B's namespace. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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