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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-03-10 01:28:01 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-03-10 01:30:38 +0100
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execve.2: Add EPERM error for capabilities check of capability-dumb binaries
Reported-by: Krzysztof Adamski <k@japko.eu> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index 24eea5aea5..1ca3b97fcb 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -466,6 +466,12 @@ and the file has the set-user-ID or set-group-ID bit set.
The process is being traced, the user is not the superuser and the
file has the set-user-ID or set-group-ID bit set.
.TP
+.B EPERM
+A "capability-dumb" applications would not obtain the full set of
+permitted capabilities granted by the executable file.
+See
+.BR capabilities (7).
+.TP
.B ETXTBSY
The specified executable was open for writing by one or more processes.
.SH CONFORMING TO