Manpages - acl_set_fd.3

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

The

function associates an access ACL with the file referred to by

The effective user ID of the process must match the owner of the file or the process must have the CAP_FOWNER capability for the request to succeed.

If any of the following conditions occur, the

function returns the value

and and sets

to the corresponding value:

The

argument is not a valid file descriptor.

The argument

does not point to a valid ACL.

The ACL has more entries than the file referred to by

can obtain.

The directory or file system that would contain the new ACL cannot be extended or the file system is out of file allocation resources.

The file identified by

cannot be associated with the ACL because the file system on which the file is located does not support this.

The process does not have appropriate privilege to perform the operation to set the ACL.

This function requires modification of a file system which is currently read-only.

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

Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by

and adapted for Linux by