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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-02-28 14:52:41 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-03-05 18:01:24 +0100
commit8dca821ab996f752b1d418280290fe4183883ec6 (patch)
tree6a59aae2cf073ae4b5f84ac5643fffbe43377892
parent3aaf354acf7e46f8b3efa8fdc20cf9e7b7b1569e (diff)
downloadman-pages-8dca821ab996f752b1d418280290fe4183883ec6.tar.gz
capabilities.7: Minor additions/fixes to Andrey's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man7/capabilities.78
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index fa452dbe55..64b642e726 100644
--- a/man7/capabilities.7
+++ b/man7/capabilities.7
@@ -1035,11 +1035,13 @@ 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,
+Before Linux 3.8, nonexistent capabilities were shown as being
+enabled (1) in these sets.
+Since Linux 3.8,
+.\" 7b9a7ec565505699f503b4fcf61500dceb36e744
all non-existent capabilities (above
.B CAP_LAST_CAP)
-are not shown.
-.\" 7b9a7ec565505699f503b4fcf61500dceb36e744
+are shown as disabled (0).
The
.I libcap