platform_external_selinux/libselinux/man/man3/security_check_context.3
Stephen Smalley 9eb9c93275 Get rid of security_context_t and fix const declarations.
In attempting to enable building various part of Android with -Wall -Werror,
we found that the const security_context_t declarations in libselinux
are incorrect; const char * was intended, but const security_context_t
translates to char * const and triggers warnings on passing
const char * from the caller.   Easiest fix is to replace them all with
const char *.  And while we are at it, just get rid of all usage of
security_context_t itself as it adds no value - there is no true
encapsulation of the security context strings and callers already
directly use string functions on them.  typedef left to permit
building legacy users until such a time as all are updated.

This is a port of Change-Id I2f9df7bb9f575f76024c3e5f5b660345da2931a7
from Android, augmented to deal with all of the other code in upstream
libselinux and updating the man pages too.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2014-02-19 16:11:48 -05:00

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.TH "security_check_context" "3" "1 January 2004" "russell@coker.com.au" "SELinux API documentation"
.SH "NAME"
security_check_context \- check the validity of a SELinux context
.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B #include <selinux/selinux.h>
.sp
.BI "int security_check_context(char * "con );
.sp
.BI "int security_check_context_raw(char * "con );
.
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.BR security_check_context ()
returns 0 if SELinux is running and the context is valid, otherwise it
returns \-1.
.BR security_check_context_raw ()
behaves identically to
.BR \%security_check_context ()
but does not perform context translation.
.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR selinux "(8)"