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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2012-03-02 07:27:40 +1300
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2012-03-05 14:34:27 +1300
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capabilities.7: Add various operations under CAP_SYS_ADMIN
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man7/capabilities.735
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index f2de3a3831..71fc3e8dae 100644
--- a/man7/capabilities.7
+++ b/man7/capabilities.7
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
.\" 2011-09-07, mtk/Serge hallyn: Add CAP_SYSLOG
.\" FIXME: Linux 3.0 added CAP_WAKE_ALARM
.\"
-.TH CAPABILITIES 7 2011-10-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH CAPABILITIES 7 2012-03-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
capabilities \- overview of Linux capabilities
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -284,8 +284,8 @@ in system calls that open files (e.g.,
.BR pipe (2));
.IP *
employ
-.B CLONE_NEWNS
-flag with
+.B CLONE_*
+flags that create new namespaces with
.BR clone (2)
and
.BR unshare (2);
@@ -293,6 +293,9 @@ and
call
.BR setns (2);
.IP *
+call
+.BR fanotify_init (2);
+.IP *
perform
.B KEYCTL_CHOWN
and
@@ -303,7 +306,31 @@ operations;
perform
.BR madvise (2)
.B MADV_HWPOISON
-operation.
+operation;
+.IP *
+employ the
+.B TIOCSTI
+.BR ioctl (2)
+to insert characters into the input queue of a terminal other than
+the caller's controlling terminal.
+.IP *
+access privileged
+.I perf
+event information;
+.IP *
+employ the obsolete
+.BR bdflush (2)
+system call;
+.IP *
+perform various privileged block-device
+.BR ioctl (2)
+operations;
+.IP *
+perform various privileged file-system
+.BR ioctl (2)
+operations;
+.IP *
+perform administrative operations on many device drivers.
.RE
.PD
.TP