acl_from_mode

NAME

LIBRARY

Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).

SYNOPSIS

n sys/types.h n acl/libacl.h

DESCRIPTION

The function creates a minimal ACL that contains the three entries with tag types ACL_USER_OBJ, ACL_GROUP_OBJ, and ACL_OTHER, with permissions corresponding to the owner, group, and other permission bits of its 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:
  • ENOMEM The ACL working storage requires more memory than is allowed by the hardware or system-imposed memory management constraints.

STANDARDS

This is a non-portable, Linux specific extension to the ACL manipulation functions defined in IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (POSIX.1e, abandoned).

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