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authorAndrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>2013-02-28 14:47:59 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-03-05 18:01:20 +0100
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capabilities.7: Nonexistent bits are no longer shown as set in /proc/PID/status Cap*
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man7/capabilities.77
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index a663c223a6..fa452dbe55 100644
--- a/man7/capabilities.7
+++ b/man7/capabilities.7
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
.\" other capabilities where the permitted or inheritable bit is set.
.\" 2011-09-07, mtk/Serge hallyn: Add CAP_SYSLOG
.\"
-.TH CAPABILITIES 7 2012-12-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH CAPABILITIES 7 2013-02-25 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
capabilities \- overview of Linux capabilities
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -1035,6 +1035,11 @@ file can be used to view the capability sets of a thread.
The
.I /proc/PID/status
file shows the capability sets of a process's main thread.
+Since kernel 3.6.8,
+all non-existent capabilities (above
+.B CAP_LAST_CAP)
+are not shown.
+.\" 7b9a7ec565505699f503b4fcf61500dceb36e744
The
.I libcap