acl_from_text(3) — Linux manual page

ACL_FROM_TEXT(3)         Library Functions Manual       ACL_FROM_TEXT(3)

NAME

       acl_from_text — create an ACL from text

LIBRARY

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

SYNOPSIS

       <sys/types.h> <sys/acl.h> acl_t acl_from_text(const char *buf_p)

DESCRIPTION

       The acl_from_text() function converts the text form of the ACL
       referred to by buf_p into the internal form of an ACL and returns
       a pointer to the working storage that contains the ACL. The
       acl_from_text() function accepts as input the long text form and
       short text form of an ACL as described in acl(5).

       This function may cause memory to be allocated.  The caller
       should free any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer
       required, by calling acl_free(3) with the (void*)acl_t returned
       by acl_from_text() as an argument.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, this function returns a pointer to the working
       storage.  On error, a value of (acl_t)NULL is returned, and errno
       is set appropriately.

ERRORS

       If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_from_text()
       function returns a value of (acl_t)NULL and sets errno to the
       corresponding value:

       [EINVAL]           The argument buf_p cannot be translated into
                          an ACL.

       [ENOMEM]           The acl_t to be returned requires more memory
                          than is allowed by the hardware or system-
                          imposed memory management constraints.

STANDARDS

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

SEE ALSO

       acl_free(3), acl_get_entry(3), acl_to_text(3), acl(5)

AUTHOR

       Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M
       Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, and adapted for Linux by Andreas
       Gruenbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>.

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Linux ACL                    March 23, 2002             ACL_FROM_TEXT(3)

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