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27.\" $FreeBSD$
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29.Dd November 19, 2006
30.Os
31.Dt P_CANSEE 9
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm p_cansee
34.Nd determine visibility of a process
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In sys/param.h
37.In sys/proc.h
38.Ft int
39.Fn p_cansee "struct thread *td" "struct proc *p"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41This function can be used to determine if a given process
42.Fa p
43is visible to the thread
44.Fa td ,
45where the notion of
46.Dq visibility
47may be read as
48.Dq "awareness of existence" .
49.Pp
50The function is implemented using
51.Xr cr_cansee 9 ,
52and the dependencies on
53.Xr sysctl 8
54variables documented in the
55.Xr cr_cansee 9
56manual page apply.
57.Sh RETURN VALUES
58The
59.Fn p_cansee
60function
61returns
62.Li 0
63if the process denoted by
64.Fa p
65is visible by thread
66.Fa td ,
67or a non-zero error return value otherwise.
68.Sh ERRORS
69.Bl -tag -width Er
70.It Bq Er ESRCH
71Process
72.Fa p
73is not visible to thread
74.Fa td
75as determined by
76.Xr cr_cansee 9 .
77.It Bq Er ESRCH
78Thread
79.Fa td
80has been jailed and process
81.Fa p
82does not belong to the same jail as
83.Fa td .
84.It Bq Er ESRCH
85The MAC subsystem denied visibility.
86.El
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88.Xr jail 2 ,
89.Xr sysctl 8 ,
90.Xr cr_cansee 9 ,
91.Xr mac 9 ,
92.Xr p_candebug 9 ,
93.Xr prison_check 9
94