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14.Dd May 11, 2016
15.Dt PPRIV 3PROC
16.Os
17.Sh NAME
18.Nm Ppriv ,
19.Nm Ppriv_free
20.Nd get and free process privilege sets
21.Sh SYNOPSIS
22.Lb libproc
23.In libproc.h
24.Ft int
25.Fo Ppriv
26.Fa "struct ps_prochandle *P"
27.Fa "prpriv_t **pprv"
28.Fc
29.Ft void
30.Fo Ppriv_free
31.Fa "struct ps_prochandle *P"
32.Fa "prpriv_t *prv"
33.Fc
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35The
36.Fn Ppriv
37function obtains the privilege set of the process handle
38.Fa P .
39The privilege set, if it exists, will be dynamically allocated and a
40pointer to it will be placed in
41.Fa pprv .
42It must be released with a call to
43.Fn Ppriv_free .
44The definition of the
45.Sy prpriv_t
46structure is documented in
47.Xr proc 4 .
48.Pp
49The
50.Fn Ppriv_free
51function releases the storage in
52.Fa prv
53that was allocated as a result of calling
54.Fn Ppriv .
55.Sh RETURN VALUES
56Upon successful completion, the
57.Fn Ppriv
58function returns
59.Sy 0
60and
61.Fa pprv
62is updated with a pointer to the allocated privilege set. Otherwise,
63.Sy -1
64is returned and
65.Fa pprv
66is not updated.
67.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY
68.Sy Uncommitted
69.Sh MT-LEVEL
70See
71.Sy LOCKING
72in
73.Xr libproc 3LIB .
74.Sh SEE ALSO
75.Xr libproc 3LIB ,
76.Xr proc 4 ,
77.Xr privileges 5
78