selinux_policy_root

Section: SELinux API documentation (3)
Updated: 25 May 2004
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NAME

selinux_policy_root - return the path of the SELinux policy files for this machine selinux_set_policy_root - Set an alternate SELinux root path for the SELinux policy files for this machine.

SYNOPSIS

#include <selinux/selinux.h>

const char *selinux_policy_root(void);

int selinux_set_policy_root(const char *policypath);

DESCRIPTION

selinux_policy_root() reads the contents of the /etc/selinux/config file to determine which policy files should be used for this machine. selinux_set_policy_root() sets up all policy paths based on the alternate root

/etc/selinux/config file to determine which policy files should be used for this machine.

RETURN VALUE

On success, selinux_policy_root returns a directory path containing the SELinux policy files. On failure, selinux_policy_root returns NULL.

On success, selinux_set_policy_root returns 0 on success -1 on failure.