1.\" Copyright (c) 2001 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 NAI Labs, the Security 6.\" Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR 7.\" contract N66001-01-C-8035 ("CBOSS"), as part of the DARPA CHATS 8.\" 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.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote 19.\" products derived from this software without specific prior written 20.\" permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 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