acl_set_permset(3)

acl_set_permset3

Set the permissions of an acl entry

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <sys/acl.h>

int

acl_set_permset(acl_entry_t entry_d, acl_permset_t permset_d);

Library

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The acl_set_permset() function is a POSIX.1e call that sets the permissions of ACL entry entry_d with the permissions contained in permset_d.

Return values

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

The acl_set_permset() function fails if:

[EINVAL]

Argument entry_d is not a valid descriptor for an ACL entry.

Releases

56 releases since FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE; the text changed 33 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 5.1–6.3
  3. 6.4
  4. 7.0
  5. 7.1
  6. 7.2
  7. 7.3
  8. 7.4
  9. 8.0
  10. 8.1
  11. 8.2
  12. 8.3
  13. 8.4
  14. 9.0
  15. 9.1
  16. 9.2
  17. 9.3
  18. 10.0
  19. 10.1
  20. 10.2
  21. 10.3
  22. 10.4
  23. 11.0
  24. 11.1
  25. 11.2
  26. 11.3
  27. 11.4
  28. 12.0
  29. 12.1
  30. 12.2
  31. 12.3
  32. 12.4
  33. 13.0–13.2
  34. 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_set_permset() function was added in FreeBSD 5.0.

Authors

The acl_set_permset() function was written by Chris D. Faulhaber ⟨[email protected]⟩.

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