1.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Networks Associates Technology, Inc. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This software was developed for the FreeBSD Project by Chris 5.\" Costello at Safeport Network Services and Network Associates Labs, 6.\" the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under 7.\" DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 ("CBOSS"), as part of the 8.\" DARPA CHATS research program. 9.\" 10.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 11.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 12.\" are met: 13.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 15.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 16.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 17.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" $FreeBSD$ 32.\" 33.Dd December 12, 2002 34.Os 35.Dt MAC_PREPARE 3 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm mac_prepare , mac_prepare_file_label , 38.Nm mac_prepare_ifnet_label , mac_prepare_process_label 39.Nd allocate appropriate storage for 40.Vt mac_t 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.In sys/mac.h 43.Ft int 44.Fn mac_prepare "mac_t *mac" "char *elements" 45.Ft int 46.Fn mac_prepare_file_label "mac_t *mac" 47.Ft int 48.Fn mac_prepare_ifnet_label "mac_t *mac" 49.Ft int 50.Fn mac_prepare_process_label "mac_t *mac" 51.Sh DESCRIPTION 52The 53.Nm 54family of functions allocates the appropriate amount of storage and initializes 55.Fa *mac 56for use by 57.Xr mac_get 3 . 58.Pp 59The 60.Fn mac_prepare 61function accepts a list of policy names as a parameter, and allocates the 62storage to fit those label elements accordingly. 63.Pp 64The 65.Fn mac_prepare_file_label , 66.Fn mac_prepare_ifnet_label , 67and 68.Fn mac_prepare_process_label 69functions allocate the storage to fit file, network interface, 70and process labels, respectively. 71The default label elements employed by these APIs is configured in 72.Xr mac.conf 5 . 73.Sh RETURN VALUES 74.Rv -std 75.Sh SEE ALSO 76.Xr mac 3 , 77.Xr mac_free 3 , 78.Xr mac_get 3 , 79.Xr mac_is_present_np 3 , 80.Xr mac_set 3 , 81.Xr mac 4 , 82.Xr mac.conf 5 , 83.Xr maclabel 7 84.Sh STANDARDS 85POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17. 86Discussion of the draft 87continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation mailing list. 88To join this list, see the 89.Fx 90POSIX.1e implementation page 91for more information. 92