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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:16:44 +0300 (EEST)
From: Tony Glader <Tony.Glader@blueberrysolutions.com>
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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:

??:(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 

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