acl_copy_entry(3)

acl_copy_entry3

Copy an acl entry to another acl entry

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <sys/acl.h>

int

acl_copy_entry(acl_entry_t dest_d, acl_entry_t src_d);

Library

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The acl_copy_entry() function is a POSIX.1e call that copies the contents of ACL entry src_d to ACL entry dest_d.

Return values

The acl_copy_entry() 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

The acl_copy_entry() function fails if:

[EINVAL]

Argument src_d or dest_d is not a valid descriptor for an ACL entry, or arguments src_d and dest_d reference the same ACL entry.

Releases

Unchanged in 135 releases since Mac OS X 10.4.

  1. 10.4–26.5

Standards

POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.

Authors

Michael Smith Chris D Fulhaber

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