I found a page which tries to explain why it was abandoned: http://www.madore.org/~david/linux/newcaps/#abandoned
It looks like there are things libcap can do that selinux and grsecurity don't... selinux and grsecurity don't try to circumvent linux capabilities that are integrated in other kernel drivers. So, for the time being, linux capabilities are the only way to give non-root users permission to read, or write, to superuser resources, like ntpd does. In other words, libcap has not been replaced by anything, and isn't going away any time soon. robert
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