Manpages - acl_from_text.3

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

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

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.

On success, this function returns a pointer to the 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 argument

cannot be translated into an ACL.

The

to be returned 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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