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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-12-30 11:00:02 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-12-30 11:01:01 +0100
commitef0ba060b31a650c14a695d3051aeaa311e13ced (patch)
treef09456bb4c1450c585be00330e4c71a0e11f6831 /man7
parentbafa4943860b1159051850f4687c228ca71df0fd (diff)
downloadman-pages-ef0ba060b31a650c14a695d3051aeaa311e13ced.tar.gz
capabilities.7: Minor clarification of historical behavior
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
-rw-r--r--man7/capabilities.74
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index 7d35b53363..3523419776 100644
--- a/man7/capabilities.7
+++ b/man7/capabilities.7
@@ -1747,7 +1747,9 @@ always masks out the
capability, and this can not be changed
without modifying the kernel source and rebuilding the kernel.
.IP *
-If file capabilities are disabled in the current implementation, then
+If file capabilities are disabled (i.e., the kernel
+.B CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
+option is disabled), then
.B init
starts out with the
.B CAP_SETPCAP