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CAP_MKDB(1)             NetBSD General Commands Manual             CAP_MKDB(1)


NAME

     cap_mkdb -- create capability database


SYNOPSIS

     cap_mkdb [-b | -l] [-v] [-f outfile] file1 [file2 ...]


DESCRIPTION

     cap_mkdb builds a hashed database out of the getcap(3) logical database
     constructed by the concatenation of the specified files.

     The database is named by the basename of the first file argument and the
     string ``.db''.  The getcap(3) routines can access the database in this
     form much more quickly than they can the original text file(s).

     The ``tc'' capabilities of the records are expanded before the record is
     stored into the database.

     The options are as follows:

           -b      Use big-endian byte order for database metadata.

           -f outfile
                   Specify a different database basename.

           -l      Use little-endian byte order for database metadata.

           -v      Print out the number of capability records in the database.

     The -b and the -l flags are mutually exclusive.  The default byte order-
     ing is the current host order.


FORMAT

     The following is a description of the hashed database created by
     cap_mkdb.  For a description of the format of the input files see
     capfile(5).

     Each record is stored in the database using two different types of keys.

     The first type is a key which consists of the first capability of the
     record (not including the trailing colon (``:'')) with a data field con-
     sisting of a special byte followed by the rest of the record.  The spe-
     cial byte is either a 0 or 1, where a 0 means that the record is okay,
     and a 1 means that there was a ``tc'' capability in the record that
     couldn't be expanded.

     The second type is a key which consists of one of the names from the
     first capability of the record with a data field consisting a special
     byte followed by the first capability of the record.  The special byte is
     a 2.

     In normal operation names are looked up in the database, resulting in a
     key/data pair of the second type.  The data field of this key/data pair
     is used to look up a key/data pair of the first type which has the real
     data associated with the name.


EXIT STATUS

     The cap_mkdb utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.


SEE ALSO

     dbopen(3), getcap(3), capfile(5)

NetBSD 10.1                      April 5, 2012                     NetBSD 10.1