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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-06-26 16:13:51 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-09-12 14:04:45 +0100
commitaf53fcb53e6820a388bd6bc55a02dacd5394d69c (patch)
treeb203c0961ee4fddea1be5e6748259c6afe696ebc
parenta0b4ac2c1cc14f109aaa80cec22667ba8acd3237 (diff)
downloadman-pages-af53fcb53e6820a388bd6bc55a02dacd5394d69c.tar.gz
prctl.2: Note user namespace requirements for PR_CAPBSET_DROP CAP_SETPCAP
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/prctl.22
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index d5d3d4ed60..a9bc420b5c 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ is not valid, then the call fails with the error
.BR PR_CAPBSET_DROP " (since Linux 2.6.25)"
If the calling thread has the
.B CAP_SETPCAP
-capability, then drop the capability specified by
+capability within its user namespace, then drop the capability specified by
.I arg2
from the calling thread's capability bounding set.
Any children of the calling thread will inherit the newly