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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 LIBRARY
22.Lb libproc
23.Sh SYNOPSIS
24.In libproc.h
25.Ft int
26.Fo Ppriv
27.Fa "struct ps_prochandle *P"
28.Fa "prpriv_t **pprv"
29.Fc
30.Ft void
31.Fo Ppriv_free
32.Fa "struct ps_prochandle *P"
33.Fa "prpriv_t *prv"
34.Fc
35.Sh DESCRIPTION
36The
37.Fn Ppriv
38function obtains the privilege set of the process handle
39.Fa P .
40The privilege set, if it exists, will be dynamically allocated and a
41pointer to it will be placed in
42.Fa pprv .
43It must be released with a call to
44.Fn Ppriv_free .
45The definition of the
46.Sy prpriv_t
47structure is documented in
48.Xr proc 4 .
49.Pp
50The
51.Fn Ppriv_free
52function releases the storage in
53.Fa prv
54that was allocated as a result of calling
55.Fn Ppriv .
56.Sh RETURN VALUES
57Upon successful completion, the
58.Fn Ppriv
59function returns
60.Sy 0
61and
62.Fa pprv
63is updated with a pointer to the allocated privilege set.
64Otherwise,
65.Sy -1
66is returned and
67.Fa pprv
68is not updated.
69.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY
70.Sy Uncommitted
71.Sh MT-LEVEL
72See
73.Sy LOCKING
74in
75.Xr libproc 3LIB .
76.Sh SEE ALSO
77.Xr libproc 3LIB ,
78.Xr proc 4 ,
79.Xr privileges 5
80