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getpcaps - display process capabilities

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  REPORTING BUGS  SEE ALSO  AUTHOR 

NAME

getpcaps − display process capabilities

SYNOPSIS

getpcaps [optional args] pid...

DESCRIPTION

getpcaps displays the capabilities on the processes indicated by the pid value(s) given on the command line. A pid of 0 displays the capabilities of the process that is running getpcaps itself.

The capability Set of the process is displayed in the text represenation described here: cap_text_formats(7).

Optional arguments:
−−help
or −−usage

Displays usage information and exits.

−−ugly or −−legacy

Displays output in a somewhat ugly legacy format.

−−verbose

Displays usage in a legacy-like format but not quite so ugly in modern default terminal fonts.

−−iab

Displays IAB tuple capabilities from the process. The output format here is also described in cap_text_formats(7). Double quotes encase the regular process capabilities and square brackets encase the IAB tuple. This format is also used by captree(8).

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?component=libcap&list_id=1090757

SEE ALSO

capsh(1), cap_from_text(3), cap_iab(3), cap_text_format(7), capabilities(7), captree(8), getcap(8), and setcap(8).

AUTHOR

This manual page was originally written by Robert Bihlmeyer <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).


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