getpcaps(8)

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 –usage

Displays usage information and exits.

–ugly or –legacy

Displays 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

capsh(1), capabilities(7), getcap(8), setcap(8)

Author

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