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    Add eventlog/trace stuff for capabilities: create/delete/enable/disable · f9c2e854
    Duncan Coutts authored
    Now that we can adjust the number of capabilities on the fly, we need
    this reflected in the eventlog. Previously the eventlog had a single
    startup event that declared a static number of capabilities. Obviously
    that's no good anymore.
    
    For compatability we're keeping the EVENT_STARTUP but adding new
    EVENT_CAP_CREATE/DELETE. The EVENT_CAP_DELETE is actually just the old
    EVENT_SHUTDOWN but renamed and extended (using the existing mechanism
    to extend eventlog events in a compatible way). So we now emit both
    EVENT_STARTUP and EVENT_CAP_CREATE. One day we will drop EVENT_STARTUP.
    
    Since reducing the number of capabilities at runtime does not really
    delete them, it just disables them, then we also have new events for
    disable/enable.
    
    The old EVENT_SHUTDOWN was in the scheduler class of events. The new
    EVENT_CAP_* events are in the unconditional class, along with the
    EVENT_CAPSET_* ones. Knowing when capabilities are created and deleted
    is crucial to making sense of eventlogs, you always want those events.
    In any case, they're extremely low volume.
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