acl_get_entry_type_np(3)

acl_get_entry_type_np3

Retrieve the acl type from an nfsv4 acl entry

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <sys/acl.h>

int

acl_get_entry_type_np(acl_entry_t entry_d, acl_entry_type_t *entry_type_p);

Library

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The acl_get_entry_type_np() function is a non-portable call that returns the ACL type for the NFSv4 ACL entry entry_d. Upon successful completion, the location referred to by the argument entry_type_p will be set to the ACL type of the ACL entry entry_d.

Return values

The acl_get_entry_type_np() 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_get_entry_type_np() function fails if:

[EINVAL]

Argument entry_d is not a valid descriptor for an NFSv4 ACL entry;

Releases

39 releases since FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE; the text changed 25 times.

  1. 8.0
  2. 8.1
  3. 8.2
  4. 8.3
  5. 8.4
  6. 9.0
  7. 9.1
  8. 9.2
  9. 9.3
  10. 10.0
  11. 10.1
  12. 10.2
  13. 10.3
  14. 10.4
  15. 11.0
  16. 11.1
  17. 11.2
  18. 11.3
  19. 11.4
  20. 12.0
  21. 12.1
  22. 12.2
  23. 12.3
  24. 12.4
  25. 13.0–13.2
  26. 13.3–16.0

Standards

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

History

POSIX.1e support was introduced in FreeBSD 4.0. The acl_get_entry_type_np() function was added in FreeBSD 8.0.

Authors

The acl_get_entry_type_np() function was written by Edward Tomasz Napierala ⟨[email protected]⟩.

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