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Hi Brian,

I see what they did now. It appears that libcap is v2 but they kept v1 for 
backward compatability.....

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    11 Apr 10  2014
/lib64/libcap.so -> libcap.so.2*

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    14 Apr 10  2014
/lib64/libcap.so.1 -> libcap.so.1.10*

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 15224 Aug 24  2010
/lib64/libcap.so.1.10*

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    14 Apr 10  2014
/lib64/libcap.so.2 -> libcap.so.2.16*

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 16600 Aug 23  2011
/lib64/libcap.so.2.16*

Andy

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Brian Bockelman wrote:

>
>
>> On Jul 27, 2018, at 7:28 PM, Andrew Hanushevsky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Brian Bockelman wrote:
>>
>>> My understanding is that libcap (from kernel.org) and libcap2 (a second implementation) both implement the same API in the same library name (libcap).
>> That may be wishfull thinking for RH platforms. RH6 has two separate libraries (v1 and v2). RH7 settled on v2 but then just to make it interesting included libcap-ng (next generation), sigh.
>>
>
> Actually, I'm not sure I really can figure out the difference between v1 and v2 -- it still seems to refer to the same thing.  Can you show me the two packages on RHEL6?  I only see one.
>
> libcap-ng is completely unrelated, I think.  It has an API that's less prickly - but I'd rather use the more basic API as it seems libcap (maintained at kernel.org) is more widely found.
>
> Brian
>

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