| This is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) |
| draft 15 capabilities. |
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| Natively supported languages are C/C++ and Go. |
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| This library would not have been possible without the help of |
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| Aleph1, Roland Buresund and Andrew Main, Alexander Kjeldaas. |
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| More information on capabilities in the Linux kernel, links to the |
| official git repostitory for libcap, release notes and how to report |
| bugs can be found at: |
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| http://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/ |
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| # BUILDING AND INSTALLATION |
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| $ make |
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| builds the library and the programs that are expected |
| to work on your system. For example, if you have |
| Linux-PAM installed, pam_cap is built. A golang |
| installation is required to build the Go packages. |
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| $ make test |
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| runs all of the tests not requiring privilege |
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| $ make sudotest |
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| runs all of the tests including those that require privilege. |
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| $ sudo make install |
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| default installs the library libcap.XX.Y in /lib[64]/ |
| the binaries in /sbin/ |
| the header files in /usr/include |
| the {libcap,libpsx}.pc files in /usr/lib[64]/pkgconfig |
| the Go packages (if built) under /usr/share/gocode/src |
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| For some example C programs look in the progs/ directory. Specifically, |
| capsh, getpcaps, setcap and getcap. |
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| Go example programs are to be found in the goapps/ directory. There |
| are also some more complicated integration tests in the go/ directory. |
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| Cheers |
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| Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> |
