Manpages - acl_copy_int.3

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

The

function copies an exportable, contiguous, persistent form of an ACL, pointed to by

to the internal representation.

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

with the

returned by

as an argument.

Upon success, the

function returns a pointer that references the ACL in working storage. On error, a value of

is returned, and

is set appropriately.

If any of the following conditions occur, the

function returns a value of

and sets

to the corresponding value:

The buffer pointed to by the argument

does not contain a valid external form ACL.

The ACL working storage requires more memory than is allowed by the hardware or system-imposed memory management constraints.

IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned)

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