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authorSven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net>2017-08-30 07:49:50 +0200
committerSven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net>2017-08-30 07:49:50 +0200
commit311b1ceb2cc3e69130c46b0485b2c55a1b166d62 (patch)
tree987eec04d8148187836219929824bcd7f210bde2 /src/basic/capability-util.c
parent9947abfa61364034e316bc7e578cda4ab2c2b9e7 (diff)
Prep v235: Apply pending upstream updates in src/basic [1/4]
Diffstat (limited to 'src/basic/capability-util.c')
-rw-r--r--src/basic/capability-util.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/capability-util.c b/src/basic/capability-util.c
index 952bcc2d7..294dcc8d4 100644
--- a/src/basic/capability-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/capability-util.c
@@ -372,4 +372,19 @@ int drop_capability(cap_value_t cv) {
return 0;
}
+
+bool ambient_capabilities_supported(void) {
+ static int cache = -1;
+
+ if (cache >= 0)
+ return cache;
+
+ /* If PR_CAP_AMBIENT returns something valid, or an unexpected error code we assume that ambient caps are
+ * available. */
+
+ cache = prctl(PR_CAP_AMBIENT, PR_CAP_AMBIENT_IS_SET, CAP_KILL, 0, 0) >= 0 ||
+ !IN_SET(errno, EINVAL, EOPNOTSUPP, ENOSYS);
+
+ return cache;
+}
#endif // 0