From c3a208e9d91e32360408865724316c927f88b55c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 21:20:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] capget.2: Remove first paragraph, which repeats details from capabilities(7) Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/capget.2 | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/capget.2 b/man2/capget.2 index ceed5c358..126e3c9c8 100644 --- a/man2/capget.2 +++ b/man2/capget.2 @@ -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,