8. System administration commands (usually only for root)
GETPCAPS
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: 2020-01-04
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NAME
getpcaps - display process capabilitiesSYNOPSIS
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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