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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
Theacl_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, theacl_dup
()
function returns a value of (acl_t)NULL
and sets
errno to the corresponding value:
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 ⟨a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at⟩.March 23, 2002 | Linux ACL |