Bug 208375

Summary: error: 'XATTR_NAME_CAPS' undeclared
Product: Tools Reporter: Prasanth R (ragaprasanth)
Component: libcapAssignee: Andrew G. Morgan (morgan)
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: morgan
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: For old kernels we can manually define the values

Description Prasanth R 2020-06-29 16:13:13 UTC 
Found while cross-compiling with the older kernel

cap_file.c: In function 'cap_get_fd':
cap_file.c:207:33: error: 'XATTR_NAME_CAPS' undeclared (first use in this function)
  sizeofcaps = fgetxattr(fildes, XATTR_NAME_CAPS,
                                 ^
cap_file.c:207:33: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
cap_file.c: In function 'cap_get_file':
cap_file.c:237:34: error: 'XATTR_NAME_CAPS' undeclared (first use in this function)
  sizeofcaps = getxattr(filename, XATTR_NAME_CAPS,
                                  ^
cap_file.c: In function 'cap_set_fd':
cap_file.c:283:30: error: 'XATTR_NAME_CAPS' undeclared (first use in this function)
  return fremovexattr(fildes, XATTR_NAME_CAPS);
                              ^
cap_file.c: In function 'cap_set_file':
cap_file.c:315:31: error: 'XATTR_NAME_CAPS' undeclared (first use in this function)
  return removexattr(filename, XATTR_NAME_CAPS);
                               ^
Makefile:78: recipe for target 'cap_file.o' failed
make[2]: *** [cap_file.o] Error 1
Comment 1 Prasanth R 2020-06-29 16:14:41 UTC 
Created attachment 289941 [details]
For old kernels we can manually define the values

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