centos man page for getfilecon

getfilecon(3)						     SELinux API documentation						     getfilecon(3)

NAME
       getfilecon, fgetfilecon, lgetfilecon - get SELinux security context of a file

SYNOPSIS
       #include <selinux/selinux.h>

       int getfilecon(const char *path, security_context_t *con);

       int getfilecon_raw(const char *path, security_context_t *con);

       int lgetfilecon(const char *path, security_context_t *con);

       int lgetfilecon_raw(const char *path, security_context_t *con);

       int fgetfilecon(int fd, security_context_t *con);

       int fgetfilecon_raw(int fd, security_context_t *con);

DESCRIPTION
       getfilecon() retrieves the context associated with the given path in the file system, the length of the context is returned.

       lgetfilecon() is identical to getfilecon(), except in the case of a symbolic link, where the link itself is interrogated, not the file that
       it refers to.

       fgetfilecon() is identical to getfilecon(), only the open file pointed to by filedes (as returned by open(2)) is interrogated in  place	of
       path.

       getfilecon_raw(),  lgetfilecon_raw()  and  fgetfilecon_raw()  behave  identically  to their non-raw counterparts but do not perform context
       translation.

       The returned context should be freed with freecon(3) if non-NULL.

RETURN VALUE
       On success, a positive number is returned indicating the size of the extended attribute value. On failure, -1 is returned and errno is  set
       appropriately.

       If the context does not exist, or the process has no access to this attribute, errno is set to ENODATA.

       If extended attributes are not supported by the filesystem, or are disabled, errno is set to ENOTSUP.

       The errors documented for the stat(2) system call are also applicable here.

SEE ALSO
       selinux(8), freecon(3), setfilecon(3), setfscreatecon(3)

russell@coker.com.au						  1 January 2004						     getfilecon(3)