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GETPCAPS

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 2020-01-04
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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 capabilities are displayed in the cap_from_text(3) format.

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.
 

SEE ALSO

capsh(1), capabilities(7), getcap(8), setcap(8)  

AUTHOR

This manual page was originally written by Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).


 

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