man acl_valid (Fonctions bibliothèques) - acl_valid

NAME

acl_valid - validate an ACL

LIBRARY

Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).

SYNOPSIS

acl_valid acl_t acl

DESCRIPTION

The acl_valid function checks the ACL referred to by the argument acl for validity.

The three required entries ACL_USER_OBJ, ACL_GROUP_OBJ, and ACL_OTHER must exist exactly once in the ACL. If the ACL contains any ACL_USER or ACL_GROUP entries, then an ACL_MASK entry is also required. The ACL may contain at most one ACL_MASK entry.

The user identifiers must be unique among all entries of type ACL_USER. The group identifiers must be unique among all entries of type ACL_GROUP.

RETURN VALUE

ERRORS

If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_valid function returns -1 and sets errno to the corresponding value:

Bq EINVAL
The argument acl is not a valid pointer to an ACL. The argument acl does not point to a valid ACL. One or more of the required ACL entries is not present in acl . The ACL contains entries that are not unique.

STANDARDS

IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (POSIX.1e, abandoned)

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org , and adapted for Linux by Andreas Gruenbacher Aq a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at .