security_check_context(3)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the security_check_context page 💖 — that's the security_check_context(3) manual, straight outta the SELinux API documentation ✨. This one is literally all about checking the validity of a SELinux context. No cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

first things first, you gotta bring in the header:

#include <selinux/selinux.h>

then these two icons are at your service:

int security_check_context(const char *con);

int security_check_context_raw(const char *con);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so security_check_context() does a little vibe check on your context ✨. It returns 0 if SELinux is running and the context is valid — slay, we love a valid context 👑. Otherwise? It returns -1 😭. That's it. That's the whole tea.

and then there's security_check_context_raw() — she behaves identically to security_check_context(), but she does not perform context translation. So if you need the raw, untranslated truth, she's your girl 💅.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• selinux(8) — go read that too, bestie 🫶

this page was brought to you by russell@coker.com.au, dated 1 January 2004, and it's part of the security_check_context(3) manual. mwah 💋