illumos gate

At present, file(1) displays all capabilities in a .SUNW_cap section. This is wrong. Capabilities groups after the first represent symbol capabilities, and aren't interesting to file(1) which displays "... any software or hardware capability requirements"

symbol capabilities don't represent requirements, but a set of alternate implementations selected based on present capabilities.

The most obvious view of this is libsoftcrypto, which contains an SSE2 implementation of certain math, but does not require SSE2

% elfdump -H /usr/lib/libsoftcrypto.so.1
Capabilities Section:  .SUNW_cap

 Symbol Capabilities:
     index  tag               value
       [1]  CA_SUNW_ID       i386_hwcap1
       [2]  CA_SUNW_HW_1     0x1040  [ SSE2 MMX ]

  Symbols:
     index    value      size      type bind oth ver shndx          name
       [1]  0x0001048e 0x00000490  FUNC LOCL  D    0 .text          big_ext_gcd_pos%i386_hwcap1
       [2]  0x0000e11c 0x0000011b  FUNC LOCL  D    0 .text          bignum2bytestring%i386_hwcap1
       [3]  0x00011c18 0x0000003d  FUNC LOCL  D    0 .text          big_modexp_crt%i386_hwcap1
 ...

This should not reflected by file(1), but...

% file /usr/lib/libsoftcrypto.so.1
/usr/lib/libsoftcrypto.so.1:    ELF 32-bit LSB dynamic lib 80386 Version 1 [SSE2 MMX], dynamically linked, not stripped, no debugging information available

The capabilities present between brackets should not be listed, as we see from elfdump, above, there are no object capabilities in libsoftcrypto, only symbol capabilities.