Bug 214601

Summary: Use less memory by default at startup
Product: Tools Reporter: Andrew G. Morgan (agm)
Component: libcapAssignee: Andrew G. Morgan (morgan)
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: morgan
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: n/a Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: don't allocate memory at start up

Description Andrew G. Morgan 2021-10-01 23:34:31 UTC
Created attachment 299055 [details]
don't allocate memory at start up

Since the startup of libcap doesn't generally require supporting
a non-default /proc directory, we should avoid allocating memory
to support the default.

Please consider adopting the attached patch.