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Attached is a patch which adds POSIX capabilities support. The following API functions are supported:
 * cap_clear
 * cap_copy_ext
 * cap_dup
 * cap_from_text
 * cap_get_flag
 * cap_get_proc
 * cap_init
 * cap_set_flag
 * cap_set_proc
 * cap_size
 * cap_to_text
The following API function is supported, but is broken with certain versions of libcap (I am running debian testing's libcap1, version 1.10-14, which has an issue; I have reported this upstream):
 * cap_copy_int
The following API functions are in there as stubs, but currently are not compiled. I need access to a machine to test these. I will probably add autoconf tests for availability of these functions in due course:
 * cap_get_fd
 * cap_get_file
 * cap_set_fd
 * cap_set_file
The patch includes diffs to configure. My autoconf is however at a different revision to that used on the python trunk. You may want to re-autoconf configure.in.
I've added a few API tests to test_posix.py.