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authorMenno E. Duursma <druiloor@zonnet.nl>2010-05-11 14:56:16 +0200
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+libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.
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+More information (POSIX 1e and 2c drafts):
+http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/posix.1e/download.html
+
+Usage tutorial (Olaf Kirch: Using Capabilities - 2002):
+http://www.lst.de/~okir/blackhats/node125.html
+
+Linux Capabilities FAQ 0.2 (by Boris Tobotras - 1999):
+ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/kernel-2.2/capfaq-0.2.txt
+
+If you uninstall this package, you will need to manually remove the
+/usr/include/sys/capability.h header.