acl_get_permset(3)

acl_get_permset3

Retrieve permission set from an acl entry

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <sys/acl.h>

int

acl_get_permset(acl_entry_t entry_d, acl_permset_t *permset_p);

Library

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The acl_get_permset() function is a POSIX.1e call that returns via permset_p a descriptor to the permission set in the ACL entry entry_d. Subsequent operations using the returned permission set operate on the permission set within the ACL entry.

Return values

The acl_get_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

The acl_get_permset() function fails if:

[EINVAL]

Argument entry_d is not a valid descriptor for an 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. Faulhaber

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