On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 12:01, Peter Stephenson wrote:

> HAVE_CAP_GET_PROC is defined, but the shell isn't including appropriate
> headers, or has a completely different system for capabilities.
> 
> Could you please try:
> 1. Undefining HAVE_CAP_GET_PROC in config.h.
>

> 2. Grepping the system headers for cap_t or cap_get_proc.  Presumably
> it's there somewhere.  In that case searching for the right header
> during configuration should fix it.
> 
> Unless we can satisfactorily resolve 2. the only way forward will be
> to introduce an --enable-cap flag.  I have no way of testing this
> code at all.

Ok. I have included the capabilities.h which seems to have the "opaque"
definition for cap_t. Below is the result of running grep through
/usr/include:

[ibraheem@md000002s:~] $ find /usr/include -type f \
		-exec grep -E '(cap_t|cap_get_proc)' \
		/dev/null  {} \;
/usr/include/sys/capabilities.h: * cap_t
/usr/include/sys/capabilities.h: * cap_t is an opaque data type.  The
format used within the
/usr/include/sys/capabilities.h: * library and kernel is represented by
(struct __cap_t).
/usr/include/sys/capabilities.h:struct __cap_t {
/usr/include/sys/capabilities.h:typedef void * cap_t;
/usr/include/sys/capabilities.h:int kcap_get_proc (struct __cap_t *,
int);
/usr/include/sys/capabilities.h:int kcap_set_proc (struct __cap_t *,
int);
/usr/include/sys/capabilities.h:int kcap_is_null_set (cap_flag_t, struct
__cap_t *);
/usr/include/sys/capabilities.h:int kcap_is_subset (cap_flag_t, struct
__cap_t *, struct __cap_t *);
/usr/include/sys/capabilities.h:void kcap_exec (struct __cap_t *);
/usr/include/sys/cred.h:	struct	__cap_t cr_caps;	/* capabilities sets
64-bit and LDT */
/usr/include/sys/cred.h:	struct	__cap_t crx_caps;	/* capabilities sets
*/ 
/usr/include/sys/cred.h:void kcred_getcap (struct ucred *, struct
__cap_t *);
/usr/include/sys/cred.h:void kcred_setcap (struct ucred *, struct
__cap_t *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:typedef struct pcap pcap_t;
/usr/include/pcap.h:pcap_t	*pcap_open_live(char *, int, int, int, char
*);
/usr/include/pcap.h:pcap_t	*pcap_open_offline(const char *, char *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:void	pcap_close(pcap_t *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_loop(pcap_t *, int, pcap_handler, u_char
*);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_dispatch(pcap_t *, int, pcap_handler,
u_char *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:	pcap_next(pcap_t *, struct pcap_pkthdr *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_stats(pcap_t *, struct pcap_stat *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_setfilter(pcap_t *, struct bpf_program *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:void	pcap_perror(pcap_t *, char *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:char	*pcap_geterr(pcap_t *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_compile(pcap_t *, struct bpf_program *,
char *, int,
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_freecode(pcap_t *, struct bpf_program *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_datalink(pcap_t *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_snapshot(pcap_t *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_is_swapped(pcap_t *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_major_version(pcap_t *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_minor_version(pcap_t *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:FILE	*pcap_file(pcap_t *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:int	pcap_fileno(pcap_t *);
/usr/include/pcap.h:pcap_dumper_t *pcap_dump_open(pcap_t *, const char
*);
[ibraheem@md000002s:~]

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

			--ibraheem