selinux/libselinux/man/man3/selinux_file_context_cmp.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 "selinux_file_context_cmp" "3" "08 March 2011" "SELinux API documentation"
.SH "NAME"
selinux_file_context_cmp \- Compare two SELinux security contexts excluding the 'user' component
.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B #include <selinux/selinux.h>
.sp
.BI "int selinux_file_context_cmp(const char * " a ", "
.RS
.BI "const char * " b ");"
.RE
.
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.BR selinux_file_context_cmp ()
compares two context strings excluding the user component with
.BR strcmp (3)
as shown in the
.B EXAMPLE
section.
.sp
This is useful as for most object contexts, the user component is not relevant.
.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
The return values follow the
.BR strcmp (3)
function, where:
.RS
0 if they are equal.
.RE
.RS
1 if
.I a
is greater than
.I b
.RE
.RS
\-1 if
.I a
is less than
.I b
.RE
.
.SH "ERRORS"
None.
.
.SH "NOTES"
The contexts being compared do not specifically need to be file contexts.
.
.SH "EXAMPLE"
If context
.I a
is:
.RS
user_u:user_r:user_t:s0
.RE
.sp
and context
.I b
is:
.RS
root:user_r:user_t:s0
.RE
.sp
then the actual strings compared are:
.RS
:user_r:user_t:s0 and :user_r:user_t:s0
.RE
.sp
Therefore they will match and
.BR selinux_file_context_cmp ()
will return zero.
.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR selinux "(8)"