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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 " --usageDisplays usage information and exits.

--ugly " or " --legacyDisplays 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

  1. capsh(1),
  2. capabilities(7),
  3. getcap(8),
  4. setcap(8)

Author

This manual page was originally written by Robert Bihlmeyer <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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