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.Dd November 5, 2018
.Dt LIBCASPER 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm cap_init ,
.Nm cap_wrap ,
.Nm cap_unwrap ,
.Nm cap_sock ,
.Nm cap_clone ,
.Nm cap_close ,
.Nm cap_limit_get ,
.Nm cap_limit_set ,
.Nm cap_send_nvlist ,
.Nm cap_recv_nvlist ,
.Nm cap_xfer_nvlist ,
.Nm cap_service_open
.Nd "library for handling application capabilities"
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libcasper
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #define WITH_CASPER
.In sys/nv.h
.In libcasper.h
.Ft "cap_channel_t *"
.Fn cap_init "void"
.Ft "cap_channel_t *"
.Fn cap_wrap "int sock" "int flags"
.Ft "int"
.Fn cap_unwrap "cap_channel_t *chan" "int *flags"
.Ft "int"
.Fn cap_sock "const cap_channel_t *chan"
.Ft "cap_channel_t *"
.Fn cap_clone "const cap_channel_t *chan"
.Ft "void"
.Fn cap_close "cap_channel_t *chan"
.Ft "int"
.Fn cap_limit_get "const cap_channel_t *chan" "nvlist_t **limitsp"
.Ft "int"
.Fn cap_limit_set "const cap_channel_t *chan" "nvlist_t *limits"
.Ft "int"
.Fn cap_send_nvlist "const cap_channel_t *chan" "const nvlist_t *nvl"
.Ft "nvlist_t *"
.Fn cap_recv_nvlist "const cap_channel_t *chan"
.Ft "nvlist_t *"
.Fn cap_xfer_nvlist "const cap_channel_t *chan" "nvlist_t *nvl"
.Ft "cap_channel_t *"
.Fn cap_service_open "const cap_channel_t *chan" "const char *name"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm libcasper
library allows to manage application capabilities through the casper process.
.Pp
The application capability (represented by the
.Vt cap_channel_t
type) is a communication channel between the caller and the casper process
daemon or an instance of one of its services.
A capability to the casper process obtained with the
.Fn cap_init
function allows to create capabilities to casper's services via the
.Fn cap_service_open
function.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_init
function opens capability to the casper process.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_wrap
function creates
.Vt cap_channel_t
based on the given socket.
The function is used when capability is inherited through
.Xr execve 2
or send over
.Xr unix 4
domain socket as a regular file descriptor and has to be represented as
.Vt cap_channel_t
again.
The
.Fa flags
argument defines the channel behavior.
The supported flags are:
.Bl -ohang -offset indent
.It CASPER_NO_UNIQ
The communication between process and casper uses no unique version of nvlist.
.El
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_unwrap
function is the opposite of the
.Fn cap_wrap
function.
It frees the
.Vt cap_channel_t
structure and returns
.Xr unix 4
domain socket associated with it.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_clone
function clones the given capability.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_close
function closes the given capability.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_sock
function returns
.Xr unix 4
domain socket descriptor associated with the given capability for use with
system calls like
.Xr kevent 2 ,
.Xr poll 2
and
.Xr select 2 .
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_limit_get
function stores current limits of the given capability in the
.Fa limitsp
argument.
If the function return
.Va 0
and
.Dv NULL
is stored in
.Fa limitsp
it means there are no limits set.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_limit_set
function sets limits for the given capability.
The limits are provided as a
.Xr nvlist 9 .
The exact format depends on the service the capability represents.
.Fn cap_limit_set
frees the limits regardless of whether the operation succeeds or fails.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_send_nvlist
function sends the given
.Xr nvlist 9
over the given capability.
This is low level interface to communicate with casper services.
Most services should provide higher level API.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_recv_nvlist
function receives the given
.Xr nvlist 9
over the given capability.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_xfer_nvlist
function sends the given
.Xr nvlist 9 ,
destroys it and receives new
.Xr nvlist 9
in response over the given capability.
It does not matter if the function succeeds or fails, the
.Xr nvlist 9
given for sending will always be destroyed once the function returns.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_service_open
function opens casper service of the given name through casper capability
obtained via the
.Fn cap_init
function.
The function returns capability that provides access to opened service.
Casper supports the following services in the base system:
.Bl -tag -width "system.random" -compact -offset indent
.Pp
.It system.dns
provides DNS libc compatible API
.It system.grp
provides
.Xr getgrent 3
compatible API
.It system.pwd
provides
.Xr getpwent 3
compatible API
.It system.random
allows to obtain entropy from
.Pa /dev/random
.It system.sysctl
provides
.Xr sysctlbyname 3
compatible API
.It system.syslog
provides
.Xr syslog 3
compatible API
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn cap_clone ,
.Fn cap_init ,
.Fn cap_recv_nvlist ,
.Fn cap_service_open ,
.Fn cap_wrap
and
.Fn cap_xfer_nvlist
functions return
.Dv NULL
and set the
.Va errno
variable on failure.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_limit_get ,
.Fn cap_limit_set
and
.Fn cap_send_nvlist
functions return
.Dv -1
and set the
.Va errno
variable on failure.
.Pp
The
.Fn cap_close ,
.Fn cap_sock
and
.Fn cap_unwrap
functions always succeed.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr errno 2 ,
.Xr execve 2 ,
.Xr kevent 2 ,
.Xr poll 2 ,
.Xr select 2 ,
.Xr cap_dns 3 ,
.Xr cap_grp 3 ,
.Xr cap_pwd 3 ,
.Xr cap_random 3 ,
.Xr cap_sysctl 3 ,
.Xr cap_syslog 3 ,
.Xr libcasper_service 3 ,
.Xr capsicum 4 ,
.Xr unix 4 ,
.Xr nv 9
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm libcasper
library was implemented by
.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq Mt pawel@dawidek.net
under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.
The
.Nm libcasper
new architecture was implemented by
.An Mariusz Zaborski Aq Mt oshogbo@FreeBSD.org
.