NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR | COLOPHON

CAPNG_SET_CAPS_FD(3)            Libcap-ng API           CAPNG_SET_CAPS_FD(3)

NAME         top

       capng_set_caps_fd -

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <cap-ng.h>
       int capng_set_caps_fd(int fd);

DESCRIPTION         top

       This function will write the file based capabilities to the extended
       attributes of the file that the descriptor was opened against. The
       bounding set is not included in file based capabilities operations.
       Note that this function will only work if compiled on a kernel that
       supports file based capabilities such as 2.6.2 6 and later.

RETURN VALUE         top

       This returns 0 on success and -1 on failure.

SEE ALSO         top

       capng_get_caps_fd(3), capabilities(7)

AUTHOR         top

       Steve Grubb

COLOPHON         top

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Red Hat                           June 2009             CAPNG_SET_CAPS_FD(3)

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