NAME
LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS
n sys/types.h
n sys/acl.h
DESCRIPTION
The
function allocates and initializes the working storage for an ACL of at least
ACL entries. The ACL created initially contains no ACL entries.
A pointer to the working storage is returned.
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 value of count is less than zero.
- 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
