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28.Dd January 28, 2000
29.Dt ACL_GET 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm acl_get_fd ,
33.Nm acl_get_fd_np ,
34.Nm acl_get_file
35.Nd get an ACL for a file
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libc
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
40.Fd #include <sys/acl.h>
41.Ft acl_t
42.Fn acl_get_file "const char *path_p" "acl_type_t type"
43.Ft acl_t
44.Fn acl_get_fd "int fd"
45.Ft acl_t
46.Fn acl_get_fd_np "int fd" "acl_type_t type"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn acl_get_file ,
50.Fn acl_get_fd ,
51and
52.Fn acl_get_fd_np
53each allow the retrieval of an ACL from a file.
54.Fn acl_get_file
55is a POSIX.1e call that allows the retrieval of a
56specified type of ACL from a file by name;
57.Fn acl_get_fd
58is a POSIX.1e call that allows the retrieval of an ACL of type
59ACL_TYPE_ACCESS
60from a file descriptor.
61.Fn acl_get_fd_np
62is a non-portable form of
63.Fn acl_get_fd
64that allows the retrieval of any type of ACL from a file descriptor.
65.Pp
66This function may cause memory to be allocated.  The caller should free
67any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling
68.Xr acl_free 3
69with the
70.Va (void *)acl_t
71as an argument.
72.Pp
73The ACL in the working storage is an independent copy of the ACL associated
74with the object referred to by
75.Va fd .
76The ACL in the working storage shall not participate in any access control
77decisions.
78.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
79.Fx Ns 's
80support for POSIX.1e interfaces and features is still under
81development at this time.
82.Sh RETURN VALUES
83Upon successful completion, the function shall return a pointer to the ACL
84that was retrieved.  Otherwise, a value of
85.Va (acl_t)NULL
86shall be returned, and
87.Va errno
88shall be set to indicate the error.
89.Sh ERRORS
90If any of the following conditions occur, the
91.Fn acl_get_fd
92function shall return a value of
93.Va (acl_t)NULL
94and set
95.Va errno
96to the corresponding value:
97.Bl -tag -width Er
98.It Bq Er EACCES
99Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or the
100object exists and the process does not have appropriate access rights.
101.It Bq Er EBADF
102The
103.Va fd
104argument is not a valid file descriptor.
105.It Bq Er EINVAL
106The ACL type passed is invalid for this file object.
107.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
108A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
109entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
110.It Bq Er ENOENT
111The named object does not exist, or the
112.Va path_p
113argument points to an empty string.
114.It Bq Er ENOMEM
115Insufficient memory available to fulfill request.
116.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
117The file system does not support ACL retrieval.
118.El
119.Sh SEE ALSO
120.Xr acl 3 ,
121.Xr acl_free 3 ,
122.Xr acl_get 3 ,
123.Xr acl_set 3 ,
124.Xr posix1e 3
125.Sh STANDARDS
126POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.  Discussion
127of the draft continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation
128mailing list.  To join this list, see the
129.Fx
130POSIX.1e implementation
131page for more information.
132.Sh HISTORY
133POSIX.1e support was introduced in
134.Fx 4.0 ,
135and development continues.
136.Sh AUTHORS
137.An Robert N M Watson
138.Sh BUGS
139These features are not yet fully implemented.
140