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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2008-11-11 21:48:07 +1100 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2008-11-11 21:48:07 +1100 |
| commit | 9d36be76c55ad2c2bb29683b752b0d9ad2e4eeef (patch) | |
| tree | dc193d694a65dc64740928858432af7bb623d010 /include/linux/capability.h | |
| parent | 39c9aede2b4a252bd296c0a86be832c3d3d0a273 (diff) | |
Document the order of arguments for cap_issubset. It's not instantly clear
which order the argument should be in. So give an example.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/capability.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/capability.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h index 5bc145bd759..b5750d0b96e 100644 --- a/include/linux/capability.h +++ b/include/linux/capability.h @@ -457,6 +457,13 @@ static inline int cap_isclear(const kernel_cap_t a) return 1; } +/* + * Check if "a" is a subset of "set". + * return 1 if ALL of the capabilities in "a" are also in "set" + * cap_issubset(0101, 1111) will return 1 + * return 0 if ANY of the capabilities in "a" are not in "set" + * cap_issubset(1111, 0101) will return 0 + */ static inline int cap_issubset(const kernel_cap_t a, const kernel_cap_t set) { kernel_cap_t dest; |