NAME
LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS
n sys/types.h
n acl/libacl.h
DESCRIPTION
The
function translates the ACL pointed to by the argument
into a
terminated character string. This character string
is composed of the ACL entries contained in
in the entry text format described on
acl(5)
Entries are separated from each other by the
character. If the argument
is not
each entry is prefixed by this character string.
If the argument
is
ACL entries are converted using the entry tag type keywords
and
User IDs and group IDs of ACL entries that contain such
qualifiers are converted to their corresponding names; if an identifier
has no corresponding name, a decimal number string is produced. The
ACL text representation contains no additional comments.
A bitwise combinations of the following
can be used to modify the result:
- TEXT_ABBREVIATE
Instead of the full tag type keywords, single letter abbreviations are used.
The abbreviation for
is
the abbreviation for
is
the abbreviation for
is
and the abbreviation for
is
- TEXT_NUMERIC_IDS
User IDs and group IDs are included as decimal numbers instead of names.
- TEXT_SOME_EFFECTIVE
A comment containing the effective permissions of the ACL entry is
included after ACL entries that contain permissions which are ineffective
because they are masked by an ACL_MASK entry. The ACL entry and the comment
are separated by a tab character.
- TEXT_ALL_EFFECTIVE
A comment containing the effective permissions of the ACL entry is
included after all ACL entries that are affected by an ACL_MASK entry.
The comment is included even if the permissions contained in the ACL
entry equal the effective permissions. The ACL entry and the comment are
separated by a tab character.
- TEXT_SMART_INDENT
This option is used in combination with the TEXT_SOME_EFFECTIVE or
TEXT_ALL_EFFECTIVE option. The number of tab characters inserted between
the ACL entry and the comment is increased so that the comment is
aligned to the fourth tab stop position.
A tab width of 8 characters is assumed.
The ACL referred to by
is not changed.
This function allocates any memory necessary to contain the string and
returns a pointer to the string. The caller should free any releasable
memory, when the new string is no longer required, by calling
with the
returned by
as an argument.
RETURN VALUE
On success, this function returns a pointer to the text
representation of the ACL. 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.
The ACL referenced by
contains one or more improperly formed ACL entries, or for some other
reason cannot be translated into the text form of an ACL.
ENOMEM
The character string to be returned 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).
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
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