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33.Dd July 7, 2006
34.Dt MAC_IS_PRESENT 3
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm mac_is_present
38.Nd report whether the running system has MAC support
39.Sh LIBRARY
40.Lb libc
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.In sys/mac.h
43.Ft int
44.Fn mac_is_present "const char *policyname"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Fn mac_is_present
48function determines whether the currently-running kernel supports MAC for
49a given policy or not.
50If
51.Fa policyname
52is
53.Pf non- Dv NULL ,
54the presence of the named policy
55(e.g.\&
56.Dq Li biba ,
57.Dq Li mls ,
58.Dq Li te )
59is checked, otherwise the presence of any MAC policies at all is checked.
60.Sh RETURN VALUES
61If the system supports the given MAC policy, the value 1 is returned.
62If the specified MAC policy is not supported, the value 0 is returned.
63If an error occurs, the value \-1 is returned.
64.Sh ERRORS
65.Bl -tag -width Er
66.It Bq Er EINVAL
67The value of
68.Fa policyname
69is not valid.
70.It Bq Er ENOMEM
71Insufficient memory was available to allocate internal storage.
72.El
73.Sh SEE ALSO
74.Xr mac 3 ,
75.Xr mac_free 3 ,
76.Xr mac_get 3 ,
77.Xr mac_prepare 3 ,
78.Xr mac_set 3 ,
79.Xr mac_text 3 ,
80.Xr mac 4 ,
81.Xr mac 9
82.Sh HISTORY
83Support for Mandatory Access Control was introduced in
84.Fx 5.0
85as part of the
86.Tn TrustedBSD
87Project.
88