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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON 

semanage_set_root(3)  Libsemanage API documentation semanage_set_root(3)

NAME         top

       semanage_set_root, semanage_root - SELinux Management API

SYNOPSIS         top

       Set/get the alternate root directory for SELinux configuration
       directory.

       #include <semanage/handle.h>

       extern int semanage_set_root(const char *path);

       extern const char *semanage_root(void);

DESCRIPTION         top

       The function semanage_set_root() sets an alternate root directory
       for SELinux configuration paths to be used by the semanage
       library.

RETURN VALUE         top

       The function semanage_set_root() returns -1 in case of failure.
       Otherwise, 0 is returned.

       The function semanage_root() returns the semanage root. The
       returned value should not be modified by the caller.

SEE ALSO         top

       semanage_handle_create(3), semanage_connect(3),

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the selinux (Security-Enhanced Linux user-
       space libraries and tools) project.  Information about the
       project can be found at 
       ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki⟩.  If you have a
       bug report for this manual page, see
       ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Contributing⟩.
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       ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux⟩ on 2024-06-14.  (At
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dwalsh@redhat.com              1 June 2011          semanage_set_root(3)

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