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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2024-05-28 01:00:49 +0200
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2024-05-30 15:31:13 +0200
commite86ff924dbd313e450b34df526bc0c58dd624062 (patch)
tree55b9b5997fdc0a89769d08b4a7da8e7d63797f62
parentff173b4b57b565119cb253ba8110fddec7e4f07d (diff)
downloadman-pages-e86ff924dbd313e450b34df526bc0c58dd624062.tar.gz
PR_CAP_AMBIENT.2const, PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET.2const: Split PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET from PR_CAP_AMBIENT(2const)
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--man/man2const/PR_CAP_AMBIENT.2const22
-rw-r--r--man/man2const/PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET.2const48
2 files changed, 51 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man/man2const/PR_CAP_AMBIENT.2const b/man/man2const/PR_CAP_AMBIENT.2const
index 4a9d236770..2c4819e2ff 100644
--- a/man/man2const/PR_CAP_AMBIENT.2const
+++ b/man/man2const/PR_CAP_AMBIENT.2const
@@ -26,13 +26,8 @@ which must be one of the following:
.B PR_CAP_AMBIENT_RAISE
.TQ
.B PR_CAP_AMBIENT_LOWER
-.TP
+.TQ
.B PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET
-The
-.BR prctl ()
-call returns 1 if the capability in
-.I cap
-is in the ambient capability set and 0 if it is not.
.TP
.B PR_CAP_AMBIENT_CLEAR_ALL
All capabilities will be removed from the ambient capability set.
@@ -41,11 +36,7 @@ This operation requires setting
to zero.
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success,
-.B PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET
-returns the boolean value described above.
-All other
-.I sub-op
-values return 0 on success.
+a nonnegative value is returned.
On error, \-1 is returned, and
.I errno
is set to indicate the error.
@@ -54,14 +45,6 @@ is set to indicate the error.
.B EINVAL
.I sub-op
is not a valid value.
-.TP
-.B EINVAL
-.I sub-op
-is
-.B PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET
-and
-.I cap
-does not specify a valid capability.
.SH VERSIONS
Higher-level interfaces layered on top of the above operations are
provided in the
@@ -80,6 +63,7 @@ Linux 4.3.
.BR prctl (2),
.BR PR_CAP_AMBIENT_RAISE (2const),
.BR PR_CAP_AMBIENT_LOWER (2const),
+.BR PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET (2const),
.BR libcap (3),
.BR cap_get_ambient (3),
.BR cap_set_ambient (3),
diff --git a/man/man2const/PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET.2const b/man/man2const/PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET.2const
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..778066f1f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/man2const/PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET.2const
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+.\" Copyright 2015, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+.\" Copyright 2024, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
+.\"
+.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
+.\"
+.TH PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET 2const (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
+.SH NAME
+PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET
+\-
+read the ambient capability set of the calling thread
+.SH LIBRARY
+Standard C library
+.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B #include <sys/prctl.h>
+.P
+.BI "int prctl(PR_CAP_AMBIENT, PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET, long " cap ", 0L, 0L);"
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This call
+returns 1 if the capability in
+.I cap
+is in the ambient capability set and 0 if it is not.
+.SH RETURN VALUE
+On success,
+this call
+returns the boolean value described above.
+On error, \-1 is returned, and
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the error.
+.SH ERRORS
+.TP
+.B EINVAL
+.I cap
+does not specify a valid capability.
+.SH VERSIONS
+See
+.BR PR_CAP_AMBIENT (2const).
+.SH STANDARDS
+Linux.
+.SH HISTORY
+Linux 4.3.
+.\" commit 58319057b7847667f0c9585b9de0e8932b0fdb08
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR prctl (2),
+.BR PR_CAP_AMBIENT (2const),
+.BR libcap (3)