acl_dup
NAME
LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS
n sys/types.h
n sys/acl.h
DESCRIPTION
The
function returns a pointer to a copy of the ACL pointed to by
This function may cause memory to be allocated. The caller should free any
releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling
acl_free(3)
with the
returned by
as an argument.
RETURN VALUE
On success, this function returns a pointer to the
working storage. On error, a value of
is returned, and
is set appropriately.
ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occur, the
function returns a value of
and sets
to the corresponding value:
- EINVAL The argument is not a valid pointer to an ACL.
- ENOMEM The to be returned requires more memory than is allowed by the hardware or system-imposed memory management constraints.
STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (POSIX.1e, abandoned)
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by
and adapted for Linux by
