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diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7 index e3cfdf84a4..c06bf16a35 100644 --- a/man7/capabilities.7 +++ b/man7/capabilities.7 @@ -667,6 +667,13 @@ See below for a discussion of the treatment of capabilities during Using .BR capset (2), a thread may manipulate its own capability sets (see below). +.PP +Since Linux 3.2, the file +.I /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap +exposes the numerical value of the highest capability +supported by the running kernel; +this can be used to determine the highest bit +that may be set in a capability set. .\" .SS File capabilities Since kernel 2.6.24, the kernel supports |