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README

This is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e (formerly POSIX 6)
draft 15 capabilities.

This library would not have been possible without the help of

Aleph1, Roland Buresund and Andrew Main, Alexander Kjeldaas.

More information on capabilities in the Linux kernel can be found at

http://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/

# INSTALLATION

Linux-Caps % make

builds the library and the programs

Linux-Caps % make install

installs the library libcap.XX.Y in /lib[64]/
the binaries in /sbin/
the <sys/capability.h> file in /usr/include
the libcap.pc file in /usr/lib[64]/pkgconfig

* for some example programs look in progs.

Cheers

Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>