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ACL_DUP (3) Library Functions Manual ACL_DUP (3)

NAME

acl_dup — duplicate an ACL

LIBRARY

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

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/acl.h>

acl_t

acl_dup ( acl_t acl );

DESCRIPTION

The acl_dup () function returns a pointer to a copy of the ACL pointed to by acl .

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_dup () 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_dup () function returns a value of (acl_t)NULL and sets errno to the corresponding value:

[EINVAL]

The argument acl is not a valid pointer to 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 (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>. Linux ACL March 23, 2002 ACL_DUP (3)