The
acl_get_fd (,);
acl_get_file (,);
acl_get_link_np (,);
and
acl_get_fd_np ();
each allow the retrieval of an ACL from a file.
The
acl_get_fd ();
is a POSIX.1e call that allows the retrieval of an ACL of type
ACL_TYPE_ACCESS
from a file descriptor.
The
acl_get_fd_np ();
function
is a non-portable form of
acl_get_fd ();
that allows the retrieval of any type of ACL from a file descriptor.
The
acl_get_file ();
function is a POSIX.1e call that allows the retrieval of a
specified type of ACL from a file by name;
acl_get_link_np ();
is a non-portable variation on
acl_get_file ();
which does not follow a symlink if the target of the call is a
symlink.
These functions may cause memory to be allocated.
The caller should free
any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling
acl_free3
with the
(void *)acl_t
as an argument.
The ACL in the working storage is an independent copy of the ACL associated
with the object referred to by
fd
The ACL in the working storage shall not participate in any access control
decisions.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
Fx Ns 's
support for POSIX.1e interfaces and features is still under
development at this time.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the function shall return a pointer to the ACL
that was retrieved.
Otherwise, a value of
(acl_t)NULL
shall be returned, and
errno
shall be set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occur, the
acl_get_fd ();
function shall return a value of
(acl_t)NULL
and set
errno
to the corresponding value:
Bq Er EACCES
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or the
object exists and the process does not have appropriate access rights.
Bq Er EBADF
The
fd
argument is not a valid file descriptor.
Bq Er EINVAL
The ACL type passed is invalid for this file object.
Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
Bq Er ENOENT
The named object does not exist, or the
path_p
argument points to an empty string.
POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.
Discussion
of the draft continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation
mailing list.
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HISTORY
POSIX.1e support was introduced in
Fx 4.0 ,
and development continues.