Manpages - acl_size.3

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

The

function return the size, in bytes, of the buffer required to hold the exportable, contiguous, persistent form of the ACL pointed to by the argument

when converted by

Any existing ACL entry descriptors that refer to entries in

continue to refer to the same entries. Any existing ACL pointers that refer to the ACL referred to by

continue to refer to the ACL. The order of ACL entries within

remains unchanged.

On success, the

function returns the size in bytes of the contiguous, persistent form of the ACL. 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

is not a valid pointer to an ACL.

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

Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by

and adapted for Linux by