The code to be found here is all stuff intended to be integrated with 2.3. Currently, its a patch in progress against 2.2 You can get a copy of the defunct POSIX draft specification for capabilities and some other interesting things here: http://www.guug.de/~winni/posix.1e/download.html If you are looking for ACL patches for kernels, take a look here: http://aerobee.informatik.uni-bremen.de/acl_download.html Cheers Andrew