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ACL_SET_PERMSET (3) Library Functions Manual ACL_SET_PERMSET (3)

NAME

acl_set_permset — set the permission set in an ACL entry

LIBRARY

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

SYNOPSIS

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

int

acl_set_permset ( acl_entry_t entry_d , acl_permset_t permset_d );

DESCRIPTION

The acl_set_permset () function sets the permission set of the ACL entry indicated by the argument entry_d to the permissions contained in the argument permset_d .

Any ACL entry descriptors that refer to the entry containing the permission set referred to by permset_d shall continue to refer to those entries. Any ACL entry descriptors that refer to the entry referred to by entry_d shall continue to refer to that entry.

RETURN VALUE

The acl_set_permset () function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_set_permset () function returns -1 and sets errno to the corresponding value:

[EINVAL]

The argument entry_d is not a valid descriptor for an ACL entry.

The argument permset_d is not a valid descriptor for a permission set within an ACL entry.

The argument permset_d contains values which are not valid acl_permset_t values.

STANDARDS

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

SEE ALSO

acl_add_perm (3), acl_clear_perms (3), acl_delete_perm (3), acl_get_perm (3), acl_get_permset (3), acl_get_qualifier (3), acl_get_tag_type (3), acl_set_qualifier (3), acl_set_tag_type (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_SET_PERMSET (3)