securelevel_ge(9)

securelevel_ge9

Test active securelevel

Part of securelevel_gt(9).

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <sys/proc.h>

int

securelevel_gt(struct ucred *cr, int level);

int

securelevel_ge(struct ucred *cr, int level);

Overview

These functions test the active security level against the given level. If the calling credential cr was imprisoned by the jail(2) system call, and has a different security level set than the host environment, the security level with the highest value is used.

The securelevel_gt() function will evaluate whether or not the active security level is greater than the supplied level.

The securelevel_ge() function will evaluate whether or not the active security level is greater than or equal to the supplied level.

Return values

These functions return EPERM if condition evaluated to true, and 0 otherwise.

Releases

52 releases since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE; the text changed 32 times.

  1. 5.3–6.3
  2. 6.4
  3. 7.0
  4. 7.1
  5. 7.2
  6. 7.3
  7. 7.4
  8. 8.0
  9. 8.1
  10. 8.2
  11. 8.3
  12. 8.4
  13. 9.0
  14. 9.1
  15. 9.2
  16. 9.3
  17. 10.0
  18. 10.1
  19. 10.2
  20. 10.3
  21. 10.4
  22. 11.0
  23. 11.1
  24. 11.2
  25. 11.3
  26. 11.4
  27. 12.0
  28. 12.1
  29. 12.2
  30. 12.3
  31. 12.4
  32. 13.0–13.2
  33. 13.3–16.0

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.