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34.\" $FreeBSD$
35.Dd December 21, 2001
36.Dt MAC_TEXT 3
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm mac_from_text ,
39.Nm mac_to_text
40.Nd convert MAC label to/from text representation
41.Sh LIBRARY
42.Lb libc
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.In sys/mac.h
45.Ft int
46.Fn mac_from_text "mac_t *mac" "const char *text"
47.Ft int
48.Fn mac_to_text "mac_t label" "char **text"
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Fn mac_from_text
52function converts the text representation of a label
53into the internal policy label format
54.Vt ( mac_t )
55and places it in
56.Fa *mac ,
57which must later be freed with
58.Xr mac_free 3 .
59.Pp
60The
61.Fn mac_to_text
62function allocates storage for
63.Fa *text ,
64which will be set to the text representation of
65.Fa label .
66.Pp
67Refer to
68.Xr maclabel 7
69for the MAC label format.
70.Sh RETURN VALUES
71.Rv -std mac_from_text mac_to_text
72.Sh COMPATIBILITY
73POSIX.1e does not define
74a format for text representations
75of MAC labels.
76.Sh ERRORS
77.Bl -tag -width Er
78.It Bq Er ENOMEM
79Insufficient memory was available
80to allocate internal storage.
81.El
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr mac 3 ,
84.Xr mac_free 3 ,
85.Xr mac_get 3 ,
86.Xr mac_set 3 ,
87.Xr maclabel 7
88.Sh STANDARDS
89POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.
90Discussion of the draft
91continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation mailing list.
92To join this list, see the
93.Fx
94POSIX.1e implementation page
95for more information.
96