semanage_fcontext(3)

✨ NAME ✨

semanage_fcontext — SELinux File Context Management API 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <semanage/fcontext_record.h>
#include <semanage/fcontexts_policy.h>
#include <semanage/fcontexts_local.h>

okay so real talk: this object is the lil container that holds all the properties chillin' with a SELinux file context specification 🫶

and if you wanna get the tea on any one of these functions specifically, bestie, each one has its own manual page — go read that one, it's giving detail 💅

🌸 Record API Overview 🌸

• semanage_fcontext_create(3) — manifest a whole new file context spec into existence ✨
• semanage_fcontext_free(3) — let this file context spec go, release all its resources, it's done, goodbye 🎀
• semanage_fcontext_key_create(3) — make a key, and that key is what you use to identify a file context spec 🔑
• semanage_fcontext_key_free(3) — release the resources for this file context spec key, free it, set it free 🦋
• semanage_fcontext_key_extract(3) — pull a key out that matches this file context spec 💫
• semanage_fcontext_clone(3) — make an identical file context spec — a deep-copy clone, twin behavior, no cap 👯
• semanage_fcontext_compare(3) — compare this file context spec against the key you handed over 🧐
• semanage_fcontext_compare2(3) — compare this file context spec to another one, one-on-one, main character vs main character ⚔️

🎀 Properties API Overview 🎀

• semanage_fcontext_get_expr(3) — hand you back the regular expression for this file context spec 🍓
• semanage_fcontext_set_expr(3) — set the regular expression for this file context spec ✏️
• semanage_fcontext_get_type(3) — hand you back the file type for this file context spec 🏷️
• semanage_fcontext_get_type_str(3) — hand you back a string representation of this file context spec's type, like the type but dressed up as text 💬
• semanage_fcontext_set_type(3) — set the file type for this file context spec 🖊️
• semanage_fcontext_get_con(3) — hand you back the SELinux context for this file context spec 💜
• semanage_fcontext_set_expr(3) — set the SELinux context for this file context spec 👑

not me noticing semanage_fcontext_set_expr(3) shows up twice in this list 🙈 the second one is listed as setting the SELinux context — that's literally what the page says, so I'm passing it to you exactly as-is, bestie. no edits, no guessing, periodt.

🌈 Record Store API Overview 🌈

• semanage_fcontext_modify_local(3) — add or update a file context spec over in the local store 🔥
• semanage_fcontext_del_local(3) — yeet a file context spec out of the local store 🗑️
• semanage_fcontext_exists(3) — check whether a file context spec is even defined in the persistent policy ❓
• semanage_fcontext_exists_local(3) — same vibe check, but for the local store 💭
• semanage_fcontext_query(3) — go query a file context spec in the persistent policy 🔍
• semanage_fcontext_query_local(3) — go query a file context spec in the local store 🕵️
• semanage_fcontext_count(3) — count how many file context specs are defined in the persistent policy 🔢
• semanage_fcontext_count_local(3) — count how many are defined in the local store 🧮
• semanage_fcontext_iterate(3) — run a callback for each and every file context spec in the persistent policy 🔁
• semanage_fcontext_iterate_local(3) — run a callback for each and every one in the local store 🌀
• semanage_fcontext_list(3) — hand you back an array holding all the file context specs in the persistent policy 📋
• semanage_fcontext_list_local(3) — hand you back an array holding all the ones in the local store 📦

that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 💅✨

this lil love letter to SELinux was brought to you by ivg2@cornell.edu, dated 16 March 2006, and it lives under the name semanage_fcontext(3) 🎀 go forth and manage those file contexts, you've got this 🫶💖