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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Corepure64 => Topic started by: andyj on June 30, 2017, 06:20:00 AM

Title: libcap vs. libcap-ng
Post by: andyj on June 30, 2017, 06:20:00 AM

There are two libcap's in the 8.x 64-bit repo. Does it matter which I use for extensions? What's the difference anyway?

Title: Re: libcap vs. libcap-ng
Post by: Juanito on June 30, 2017, 06:29:48 AM

libcap is the kernel.org version and libcap-ng is redhat's fork.

I don't really know the difference between them or if one is better than the other, some apps will only work with one and not the other...

Title: Re: libcap vs. libcap-ng
Post by: Rich on June 30, 2017, 06:33:22 AM

Hi andyj

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What's the difference anyway?

From the  libcap-ng.tcz.info  file:

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library to make programming with posix capabilities easier than the traditional libcap library

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Does it matter which I use for extensions?

The extensions dependency file will call out the one it needs.

Title: Re: libcap vs. libcap-ng
Post by: andyj on June 30, 2017, 08:15:05 AM

If I'm building extensions for the repo does it matter? It looks like it only it only affects BIND in my list. Do we have a direction?

Title: Re: libcap vs. libcap-ng
Post by: Juanito on June 30, 2017, 08:21:29 AM

Feel free to use whichever one you like  :)