HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 3 Library Functions N-Z (vol 7)

priv_add(3) priv_add(3)

NOTES

Future product updates may introduce new privileges. In order to assure forward compatibility, applica-

tions must not remove a basic privilege from their effective, potential, or retained set that they do not

recognize. One way to accomplish this is to use set negation notation: for instance, a process can set its

effective set to "basic,!exec,!fork,!linkany" instead of "session". This allows the application to maintain its

functionality even when a new basic privilege is introduced. Another way to accomplish this is to use the

interface

privset_remove()

or priv_remove()

to remove only the privileges that the application

understands.

DEPENDENCIES

These functions are a part of the

libsec

library.