acl_init(3)

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

4     acl_init — initialize ACL working storage
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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_init(int count);
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DESCRIPTION

17     The acl_init() function allocates and initializes the working storage for
18     an ACL of at least count ACL entries.  The ACL created initially contains
19     no ACL entries.  A pointer to the working storage is returned.
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21     This function may cause memory to be allocated.  The caller should free
22     any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling
23     acl_free(3) with the (void*)acl_t returned by acl_init() as an argument.
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RETURN VALUE

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

31     If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_init() function returns
32     a value of (acl_t)NULL and sets errno to the corresponding value:
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34     [EINVAL]           The value of count is less than zero.
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36     [ENOMEM]           The acl_t to be returned requires more memory than is
37                        allowed by the hardware or system-imposed memory man‐
38                        agement constraints.
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STANDARDS

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

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