Hello, Just noticed that the getxattr() man page says that ENOATTR is returned when an extended attribute is not present. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getxattr.2.html I believe the correct code for this situation is ENODATA or 61. strace getcap /bin/bash should confirm that. Regards -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html