Re: capable()-function

[Tony Glader]

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:

ÿÿ:(12290) eff: 0x0

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

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* Tony Glader