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@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ silo into which other related future use cases might fit.
Each thread has the following capability sets containing zero or more
of the above capabilities:
.TP
-.IR Permitted :
+.IR Permitted
This is a limiting superset for the effective
capabilities that the thread may assume.
It is also a limiting superset for the capabilities that
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ it can never reacquire that capability (unless it
either a set-user-ID-root program, or
a program whose associated file capabilities grant that capability).
.TP
-.IR Inheritable :
+.IR Inheritable
This is a set of capabilities preserved across an
.BR execve (2).
Inheritable capabilities remain inheritable when executing any program,
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ when running as a non-root user, applications that wish to run helper
programs with elevated capabilities should consider using
ambient capabilities, described below.
.TP
-.IR Effective :
+.IR Effective
This is the set of capabilities used by the kernel to
perform permission checks for the thread.
.TP
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ shared by all threads on the system.
.IP
For more details on the capability bounding set, see below.
.TP
-.IR Ambient " (since Linux 4.3):"
+.IR Ambient " (since Linux 4.3)"
.\" commit 58319057b7847667f0c9585b9de0e8932b0fdb08
This is a set of capabilities that are preserved across an
.BR execve (2)