unable to include capability.h

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at free.fr
Fri Jun 12 13:24:45 UTC 2009


Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:02:39PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>   
>> Grumf ! that's annoying :(
>>
>> Thank you very much for your quick answer ! :)
>>
>> As I only need the CAP_SYS_BOOT, I will define it manually in the source  
>> code and will remove the include, that's ugly but anyway... :/
>>
>> As I understood, the fix in the kernel conflicts with the workaround in  
>> userspace, right ?
>> I was wondering if I should notify this to the maintainer of the libcap  
>> or is it already known ?
>>
>>     
>
> Someone else suggested including <sys/types.h> first, which should work
> around it. That's what GNU coreutils did... (a change in the include
> ordering broke it.)
>   
Ah yes, I prefer this workaround, it is cleaner.
Thanks for the the trick, I tested it and that solved the issue.
> Which release are you seeing this on... F-11?
>   
Correct. I tried with different distro lenny, ubuntu 8.04, fedora 10, 
opensuse 11 and I hadn't this problem.

Thanks.
     -- Daniel




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