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GETPCAPS
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: 202-0-19
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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 capability Set of the process is displayed in the text represenation described here: cap_text_formats(7).
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 legac-like format but not quite so ugly in modern default terminal fonts.
- --iab
- Displays IAB tuple capabilities from the process. The output format here is also described in cap_text_formats(7). Double quotes encase the regular process capabilities and square brackets encase the IAB tuple. This format is also used by captree(8).
REPORTING BUGS
Please report bugs via:- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?component=libcap&list_id=1090757
SEE ALSO
capsh(1), cap_from_text(3), cap_iab(3), cap_text_format(7), capabilities(7), captree(8), getcap(8), and 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).