selinux_file_context_cmp

Section: SELinux API documentation (3)
Updated: 21 November 2009
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NAME

selinux_file_context_cmp, selinux_file_context_verify - comparison of two file contexts.

 

SYNOPSIS

#include <selinux/selinux.h>

int selinux_file_context_cmp(const security_context_t a, const security_context_t b);

int selinux_file_context_verify(const char *path, mode_t mode);

 

DESCRIPTION

selinux_file_context_cmp compares two file contexts to see if their differences are "significant", the function runs the strcmp function ignoring the user componant of the file context.

selinux_file_context_verify compares the file context on disk to the system default.

 

RETURN VALUE

Returns zero on success or -1 otherwise.

 

SEE ALSO

selinux(8), selinux_lsetfilecon(3), matchpathcon(3), freecon(3), setfilecon(3), setfscreatecon(3)