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Clarify the relationship between the MAC library APIs and POSIX.1e:

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they resemble one another, but POSIX.1e interfaces were not sufficiently
expressive to do what we needed.

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Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
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Robert Watson 2003-04-16 20:40:34 +00:00
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.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Networks Associates Technology, Inc.
.\" Copyright (c) 2001, 2003 Networks Associates Technology, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This software was developed for the FreeBSD Project by Chris
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.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mac
.Nd introduction to the POSIX.1e MAC security API
.Nd Introduction to the MAC security API
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Xr mac 4 ,
.Xr mac 9
.Sh STANDARDS
These APIs are loosely based on the APIs described in POSIX.1e.
POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.
Discussion of the draft
continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation mailing list.
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.Fx
POSIX.1e implementation page
for more information.
However, the resemblence of these APIs to the POSIX APIs is only loose,
as the POSIX APIs were unable to express many notions required for
flexible and extensible access control.
.Sh HISTORY
Support for Mandatory Access Control was introduced in
.Fx 5.0