acl_from_text(3)

1ACL_FROM_TEXT(3)         BSD Library Functions Manual         ACL_FROM_TEXT(3)
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NAME

4     acl_from_text — create an ACL from text
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LIBRARY

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

10     #include <sys/types.h>
11     #include <sys/acl.h>
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13     acl_t
14     acl_from_text(const char *buf_p);
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DESCRIPTION

17     The acl_from_text() function converts the text form of the ACL referred
18     to by buf_p into the internal form of an ACL and returns a pointer to the
19     working storage that contains the ACL. The acl_from_text() function
20     accepts as input the long text form and short text form of an ACL as
21     described in acl(5).
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23     This function may cause memory to be allocated.  The caller should free
24     any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling
25     acl_free(3) with the (void*)acl_t returned by acl_from_text() as an argu‐
26     ment.
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RETURN VALUE

29     On success, this function returns a pointer to the working storage.  On
30     error, a value of (acl_t)NULL is returned, and errno is set appropri‐
31     ately.
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ERRORS

34     If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_from_text() function
35     returns a value of (acl_t)NULL and sets errno to the corresponding value:
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37     [EINVAL]           The argument buf_p cannot be translated into an ACL.
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39     [ENOMEM]           The acl_t to be returned requires more memory than is
40                        allowed by the hardware or system-imposed memory man‐
41                        agement constraints.
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STANDARDS

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

50     Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M Watson
51     <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, and adapted for Linux by Andreas Gruenbacher
52     <a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at>.
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54Linux ACL                       March 23, 2002                       Linux ACL