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Trusted Extensions Developer's Guide     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Trusted Extensions APIs and Security Policy

2.  Labels and Clearances

3.  Label Code Examples

Obtaining a Process Label

Obtaining a File Label

Setting a File Sensitivity Label

Determining the Relationship Between Two Labels

Obtaining the Color Names of Labels

4.  Interprocess Communications

5.  Trusted X Window System

6.  Label Builder GUI

7.  Trusted Web Guard Prototype

8.  Experimental Java Bindings for the Solaris Trusted Extensions Label APIs

A.  Programmer's Reference

B.  Trusted Extensions API Reference

Index

Determining the Relationship Between Two Labels

If your application accesses data at different sensitivity labels, perform checks in your code to ensure that the process label has the correct relationship to the data label before you permit an access operation to occur. You check the sensitivity label of the object that is being accessed to determine whether access is permitted by the system.

The following code example shows how to test two sensitivity labels for equality, dominance, and strict dominance. The program checks whether a file's label is dominated by or is equal to the process's label.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include <tsol/label.h>

main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   m_label_t *plabel;
   m_label_t *flabel;

   plabel = m_label_alloc(MAC_LABEL);
   flabel = m_label_alloc(MAC_LABEL);

   if (getplabel(plabel) == -1) {
      perror("getplabel");
      exit(1);
   }
   if (getlabel(argv[1], flabel) == -1) {
      perror("getlabel");
      exit(1);
   }

   if (blequal(plabel, flabel)) {
      printf("Labels are equal\n");
   }
   if (bldominates(plabel, flabel)) {
      printf("Process label dominates file label\n");
   }
   if (blstrictdom(plabel, flabel)) {
      printf("Process label strictly dominates file label\n");
   }

   m_label_free(plabel);
   m_label_free(flabel);

   return (0);
}

The text output of this program depends on the process's label, relative to the label of the file that was passed to the process, as follows: