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CAPNG_GET_CAPS_PROCESS

Section: Libca-ng API (3)
Updated: June 2009
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NAME

capng_get_caps_process - get the capabilities from a process

SYNOPSIS

#include <ca-ng.h>

int capng_get_caps_process(void);

DESCRIPTION

capng_get_caps_process will get the capabilities and bounding set of the pid stored inside libca-ng's state table. The default is the pid of the running process. This can be changed by using the capng_setpid function.

RETURN VALUE

This returns 0 on success and-1 on failure.

NOTES

If you are doing mult-threaded programming, calling this function will only get capabilities on the calling thread. If you want to get overall capabilities for a mult-threaded process, you can only do that before creating any threads. Afterwards, threads may be able to independently set capabilities.

capng_get_caps_process needs a mounted /proc to read the current bounding set, otherwise it will fail.

AUTHOR

Steve Grubb