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authorAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>2008-05-12 22:22:13 -0700
committerAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>2008-05-12 22:22:13 -0700
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Minor fixup.
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
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A NULL value for
.IR cap_p
is used to indicate that capabilities for the file should be deleted.
-For these functions to succeed, the calling process must have the effective
-.B CAP_SETFCAP
-capability enabled and either the effective user ID of the process must match
-the file owner or the calling process must have the effective flag of the
+For these functions to succeed, the calling process must have the
+effective capability,
+.BR CAP_SETFCAP ,
+enabled and either the effective user ID of the process must match the
+file owner or the calling process must have the
.B CAP_FOWNER
-capability set. The effects of writing the capability state to any file
-type other than a regular file are undefined.
+flag in its effective capability set. The effects of writing the
+capability state to any file type other than a regular file are
+undefined.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
.BR cap_get_file ()
and