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diff --git a/libcap-ng-0.7/docs/capng_get_caps_process.3 b/libcap-ng-0.7/docs/capng_get_caps_process.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87175ae --- /dev/null +++ b/libcap-ng-0.7/docs/capng_get_caps_process.3 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.TH "CAPNG_GET_CAPS_PROCESS" "3" "June 2009" "Red Hat" "Libcap-ng API" +.SH NAME +capng_get_caps_process \- get the capabilities from a process +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.B #include <cap-ng.h> +.sp +int capng_get_caps_process(void); + +.SH "DESCRIPTION" + +capng_get_caps_process will get the capabilities and bounding set of the pid stored inside libcap-ng's state table. The default is the pid of the running process. This can be changed by using the capng_setpid function. + +.SH "RETURN VALUE" + +This returns 0 on success and -1 on failure. + +.SH NOTES + +If you are doing multi-threaded programming, calling this function will only get capabilities on the calling thread. If you want to get overall capabilities for a multi-threaded process, you can only do that before creating any threads. Afterwards, threads may be able to independantly set capabilities. + +.SH "SEE ALSO" + +.BR capng_setpid (3), +.BR capabilities (7) + +.SH AUTHOR +Steve Grubb |