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capabilities.7: NOTES: add last kernel versions for obsolete options

PATCH In review Chris Mayo 2 participants 2 messages Nov 16, 2014 – Feb 5, 2015 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 capabilities.7: NOTES: add last kernel versions for obsolete options

CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES option removed by:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/security?id=5915eb53861c5776cfec33ca4fcc1fd20d66dd27

CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES option removed in Linux 2.6.33 as already mentioned in DESCRIPTION

Signed-off-by Chris Mayo <[email protected]>
---
 man7/capabilities.7 | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
man7/capabilities.7 +2 -2
index a1adcb5..bc461a4 100644
@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ is based on the withdrawn POSIX.1e draft standard; see
 .UR http://wt.tuxomania.net\:/publications\:/posix.1e/
 .UE .
 .SH NOTES
-Since kernel 2.5.27, capabilities are an optional kernel component,
+From kernel 2.5.27 to kernel 2.6.26, capabilities are an optional kernel component,
 and can be enabled/disabled via the
 .B CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES
 kernel configuration option.

@@ -1161,7 +1161,7 @@ It can be found at
 .UR http://www.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/libs\:/security\:/linux-privs
 .UE .
 
-Before kernel 2.6.24, and since kernel 2.6.24 if
+Before kernel 2.6.24, and from kernel 2.6.24 to kernel 2.6.32 if
 file capabilities are not enabled, a thread with the
 .B CAP_SETPCAP
 capability can manipulate the capabilities of threads other than itself.
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Quoted 5 lines · Chris Mayo

CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES option removed by:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/security?id=5915eb53861c5776cfec33ca4fcc1fd20d66dd27

CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES option removed in Linux 2.6.33 as already mentioned in DESCRIPTION

Thanks, Chris. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

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Signed-off-by Chris Mayo <[email protected]>
---
 man7/capabilities.7 | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
man7/capabilities.7 +2 -2
index a1adcb5..bc461a4 100644
@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ is based on the withdrawn POSIX.1e draft standard; see
 .UR http://wt.tuxomania.net\:/publications\:/posix.1e/
 .UE .
 .SH NOTES
-Since kernel 2.5.27, capabilities are an optional kernel component,
+From kernel 2.5.27 to kernel 2.6.26, capabilities are an optional kernel component,
 and can be enabled/disabled via the
 .B CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES
 kernel configuration option.

@@ -1161,7 +1161,7 @@ It can be found at
 .UR http://www.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/libs\:/security\:/linux-privs
 .UE .
 
-Before kernel 2.6.24, and since kernel 2.6.24 if
+Before kernel 2.6.24, and from kernel 2.6.24 to kernel 2.6.32 if
 file capabilities are not enabled, a thread with the
 .B CAP_SETPCAP
 capability can manipulate the capabilities of threads other than itself.
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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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