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31.Dd July 7, 2006
32.Dt MAC_IS_PRESENT 3
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm mac_is_present
36.Nd report whether the running system has MAC support
37.Sh LIBRARY
38.Lb libc
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In sys/mac.h
41.Ft int
42.Fn mac_is_present "const char *policyname"
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The
45.Fn mac_is_present
46function determines whether the currently-running kernel supports MAC for
47a given policy or not.
48If
49.Fa policyname
50is
51.Pf non- Dv NULL ,
52the presence of the named policy
53(e.g.\&
54.Dq Li biba ,
55.Dq Li mls ,
56.Dq Li te )
57is checked, otherwise the presence of any MAC policies at all is checked.
58.Sh RETURN VALUES
59If the system supports the given MAC policy, the value 1 is returned.
60If the specified MAC policy is not supported, the value 0 is returned.
61If an error occurs, the value \-1 is returned.
62.Sh ERRORS
63.Bl -tag -width Er
64.It Bq Er EINVAL
65The value of
66.Fa policyname
67is not valid.
68.It Bq Er ENOMEM
69Insufficient memory was available to allocate internal storage.
70.El
71.Sh SEE ALSO
72.Xr mac 3 ,
73.Xr mac_free 3 ,
74.Xr mac_get 3 ,
75.Xr mac_prepare 3 ,
76.Xr mac_set 3 ,
77.Xr mac_text 3 ,
78.Xr mac 4 ,
79.Xr mac 9
80.Sh HISTORY
81Support for Mandatory Access Control was introduced in
82.Fx 5.0
83as part of the
84.Tn TrustedBSD
85Project.
86