acl_dup(3)

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

4     acl_dup — duplicate an ACL
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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_dup(acl_t acl);
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DESCRIPTION

17     The acl_dup() function returns a pointer to a copy of the ACL pointed to
18     by acl.
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20     This function may cause memory to be allocated.  The caller should free
21     any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling
22     acl_free(3) with the (void*)acl_t returned by acl_dup() as an argument.
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RETURN VALUE

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

30     If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_dup() function returns
31     a value of (acl_t)NULL and sets errno to the corresponding value:
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33     [EINVAL]           The argument acl is not a valid pointer to an ACL.
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35     [ENOMEM]           The acl_t to be returned requires more memory than is
36                        allowed by the hardware or system-imposed memory man‐
37                        agement constraints.
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STANDARDS

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

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