NAME
LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS
n sys/types.h
n sys/acl.h
DESCRIPTION
The
function converts the text form of the ACL referred to by
into the internal form of an ACL and returns a pointer to the working storage
that contains the ACL. The
function accepts as input the long text form and short text form of an ACL as described in
acl(5)
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
cannot be translated into 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
