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34.\" $FreeBSD$
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36.Dd December 21, 2001
37.Dt MAC_FREE 3
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm mac_free
41.Nd free MAC label
42.Sh LIBRARY
43.Lb libc
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.In sys/mac.h
46.Ft int
47.Fn mac_free "mac_t label"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Fn mac_free
51function frees the storage allocated to contain a
52.Vt mac_t .
53.Sh RETURN VALUES
54The
55.Fn mac_free
56function always returns 0.
57WARNING: see the notes in the
58.Sx BUGS
59section regarding the use of this
60function.
61.Sh SEE ALSO
62.Xr mac 3 ,
63.Xr mac_get 3 ,
64.Xr mac_prepare 3 ,
65.Xr mac_set 3 ,
66.Xr mac_text 3 ,
67.Xr posix1e 3 ,
68.Xr mac 4 ,
69.Xr mac 9
70.Sh STANDARDS
71POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.
72Discussion of the draft
73continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation mailing list.
74To join this list, see the
75.Fx
76POSIX.1e implementation page
77for more information.
78.Sh HISTORY
79Support for Mandatory Access Control was introduced in
80.Fx 5.0
81as part of the
82.Tn TrustedBSD
83Project.
84.Sh BUGS
85POSIX.1e specifies that
86.Fn mac_free
87will be used to free text strings created using
88.Xr mac_to_text 3 .
89Because
90.Vt mac_t
91is a complex structure in the
92.Tn TrustedBSD
93implementation,
94.Fn mac_free
95is specific to
96.Vt mac_3 ,
97and must not be used to free the character strings returned from
98.Fn mac_to_text .
99Doing so may result in undefined behavior.
100