security_context_to_sid(2)

security_context_to_sid2

Get a sid for a security context string

Usage

#include <ss.h>

int security_context_to_sid(const security_context_t scontext, __u32 scontext_len, security_id_t *out_sid);

Overview

The security_context_to_sid call is used to obtain a SID associated with the security context that has the string representation specified by scontext. The scontext_len parameter specifies the length of the string, including the terminating NULL character.

Return value

A zero is returned on success. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

Errors

EINVAL

The context was invalid.

EACCES

The process is not authorized to invoke this call.

From libselinux-dev 2002031409-4 in Debian 3.0 (Woody). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.