CAPNG_RESTORE_STATE(3)

💖 CAPNG_RESTORE_STATE — the libcap-ng glow-up page 💖

okay bestie, so this one lives in the Libcap-ng API, and it's literally the undo button for your library state. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

capng_restore_state — set the internal library state. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <cap-ng.h>

void capng_restore_state(void **state);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so capng_restore_state is the function that takes all that state info you saved earlier with capng_save_state and restores the library's internal state with it. it's giving "rewind, we're going back" ⏪✨

heads up bestie: this function is not available in the python bindings. not everything gets to come to the party, iykyk 🙈

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🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

None. nothing. zero. she's a void, she doesn't return the gossip, she just does the thing 😌

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🔥 NOTES 🔥

• capng_restore_state frees the previously malloc'd state — so like, the state can't be restored multiple times. one save, one restore, periodt. try it twice and that's on you 💀
• the working pid is part of the restored state, so if you're restoring the state to a different thread, you can use capng_setpid to update it. cute little fix-up, no cap 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• capng_save_state(3)
• capabilities(7)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Steve Grubb — the icon, the legend, the author of this whole situation 💜

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and that's the page bestie!! this little masterpiece shipped out of Red Hat back in March 2026 (yes, she's from the future, we don't ask questions 🧚✨). go save that state, go restore that state, and stay slaying fr fr 🎀💖🦋