Re: capable()-function

From: Tony Glader (Tony.Glader@blueberrysolutions.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 15:16:44 EST

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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Chris Wright wrote:

> You could dump something like this before the capable() call:
>
> printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s:(%d) eff: 0x%x\n", current->comm, current->pid,
> cap_t(current->cap_effective));

Ok. I got following result:

ےے:(12290) eff: 0x0

Is the eff-value current capabilities? Why it is zero? The task who called
it (cardmgr) was owned by root.

-- * Tony Glader

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