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| author | Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> | 2008-06-29 22:21:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> | 2008-06-29 22:21:13 -0700 |
| commit | 3fa808f5886d08c45866217cfe6e6e9def7de04e (patch) | |
| tree | 7e2ec95a15c55c8491c4f428a7d58f71e296d154 /libcap/cap_text.c | |
| parent | 6d809ebd1d7bea3c0564b6ee3c13abee408738ea (diff) | |
| download | libcap-3fa808f5886d08c45866217cfe6e6e9def7de04e.tar.gz | |
Make text representation more readable.
When the most compact representation of a set
of capabilities involves displaying unnamed
capabilities (with numbers), folk find the output
unreadable. With this change, we make an attempt
to avoid ever printing numeric capabilities in
the common cases for capability sets.
Reported-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'libcap/cap_text.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | libcap/cap_text.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libcap/cap_text.c b/libcap/cap_text.c index 1eaa7ae..e013714 100644 --- a/libcap/cap_text.c +++ b/libcap/cap_text.c @@ -406,13 +406,21 @@ char *cap_to_text(cap_t caps, ssize_t *length_p) memset(histo, 0, sizeof(histo)); - for (n = cap_maxbits; n--; ) + /* default prevailing state to the upper - unnamed bits */ + for (n = cap_maxbits-1; n > __CAP_BITS; n--) histo[getstateflags(caps, n)]++; + /* find which combination of capability sets shares the most bits */ for (m=t=7; t--; ) if (histo[t] > histo[m]) m = t; + /* capture remaining bits - selecting m from only the unnamed bits, + we maximize the likelihood that we won't see numeric capability + values in the text output. */ + while (n--) + histo[getstateflags(caps, n)]++; + /* blank is not a valid capability set */ p = sprintf(buf, "=%s%s%s", (m & LIBCAP_EFF) ? "e" : "", |