GETPCAPS(8) System Manager's Manual GETPCAPS(8) NAME getpcaps - display process capabilities SYNOPSIS getpcaps [optional args] pid... DESCRIPTION getpcaps displays the capabilities on the processes indicated by the pid value(s) given on the command line. A pid of 0 displays the capabilities of the process that is running getpcaps itself. The capability Set of the process is displayed in the text represenation described here: cap_text_formats(7). Optional arguments: --help or --usage Displays usage information and exits. --ugly or --legacy Displays output in a somewhat ugly legacy format. --verbose Displays usage in a legacy-like format but not quite so ugly in modern default terminal fonts. --iab Displays IAB tuple capabilities from the process. The output format here is also described in cap_text_formats(7). Double quotes encase the regular process capabilities and square brackets encase the IAB tuple. This format is also used by captree(8). REPORTING BUGS Please report bugs via: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?component=libcap&list_id=1090757 SEE ALSO capsh(1), cap_from_text(3), cap_iab(3), cap_text_format(7), capabilities(7), captree(8), getcap(8), and setcap(8). AUTHOR This manual page was originally written by Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 2025-03-19 GETPCAPS(8)
getpcaps \- display process capabilities