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Andrew Morgan7baf3be2007-07-10 20:50:21 -07001This is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6)
2draft 15 capabilities.
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4This library would not have been possible without the help of
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6 Aleph1, Roland Buresund and Andrew Main, Alexander Kjeldaas.
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8More information on capabilities in the Linux kernel can be found at
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Andrew G. Morgandeb35c72008-11-10 18:00:28 -080010 http://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/
Andrew Morgan7baf3be2007-07-10 20:50:21 -070011
12# INSTALLATION
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14 Linux-Caps % make
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16 builds the library and the programs
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18 Linux-Caps % make install
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Andrew G. Morgandeb35c72008-11-10 18:00:28 -080020 installs the library libcap.XX.Y in /lib[64]/
Andrew Morgan2153ffc2007-07-10 20:52:44 -070021 the binaries in /sbin/
Andrew Morgan7baf3be2007-07-10 20:50:21 -070022 the <sys/capability.h> file in /usr/include
Andrew G Morgan8e846542013-12-24 09:17:11 -080023 the libcap.pc file in /usr/lib[64]/pkgconfig
Andrew Morgan7baf3be2007-07-10 20:50:21 -070024
25* for some example programs look in progs.
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27Cheers
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Andrew Morganec25bd92007-07-10 22:38:22 -070029Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>