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capget.2: Remove first paragraph, which repeats details from capabilities(7) 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -22,17 +22,6 @@ capget, capset \- set/get capabilities of thread(s)
.PP
.BI "int capset(cap_user_header_t " hdrp ", const cap_user_data_t " datap );
.SH DESCRIPTION
Since Linux 2.2,
the power of the superuser (root) has been partitioned into
a set of discrete capabilities.
Each thread has a set of effective capabilities identifying
which capabilities (if any) it may currently exercise.
Each thread also has a set of inheritable capabilities that may be
passed through an
.BR execve (2)
call, and a set of permitted capabilities
that it can make effective or inheritable.
.PP
These two system calls are the raw kernel interface for getting and
setting thread capabilities.
Not only are these system calls specific to Linux,