HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 3 Library Functions N-Z (vol 7)

priv_str_to_set(3) priv_str_to_set(3)

priv_set_to_str()

is responsible for freeing the result using the

free().

NULL pointer

Function failed. Returns a null pointer and sets

errno to indicate the error .

ERRORS

If any of the following conditions occur, the functions fail and set

errno.

[ENOMEM] Cannot allocate enough memory for the given data.

[EINVAL] One or more arguments are invalid.

EXAMPLES

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <sys/privileges.h>

#define priv_list "PRIV_CHOWN,PRIV_CHROOT,PRIV_DACREAD"

main()

{

char *index;

priv_set_t * priv_vector;

if ( (priv_vector = priv_str_to_set( priv_list,

NULL,

&index)) == NULL )

{

perror("priv_str_to_set failed \n");

exit(1);

}

if (index)

printf("invalid privilege name starting at %s \n", index);

perror("The privileges in the given privilege vector are %s",

priv_set_to_str( priv_vector, NULL) );

}

DEPENDENCIES

priv_str_to_set()

and priv_set_to_str() are both part of the libsec library.