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30.Dd December 29, 2002
31.Dt ACL_GET 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm acl_get_fd ,
35.Nm acl_get_fd_np ,
36.Nm acl_get_file ,
37.Nm acl_get_link_np
38.Nd get an ACL for a file
39.Sh LIBRARY
40.Lb libc
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.In sys/types.h
43.In sys/acl.h
44.Ft acl_t
45.Fn acl_get_fd "int fd"
46.Ft acl_t
47.Fn acl_get_fd_np "int fd" "acl_type_t type"
48.Ft acl_t
49.Fn acl_get_file "const char *path_p" "acl_type_t type"
50.Ft acl_t
51.Fn acl_get_link_np "const char *path_p" "acl_type_t type"
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53The
54.Fn acl_get_fd ,
55.Fn acl_get_file ,
56.Fn acl_get_link_np ,
57.Fn acl_get_fd_np
58each allow the retrieval of an ACL from a file.
59The
60.Fn acl_get_fd
61is a POSIX.1e call that allows the retrieval of an ACL of type
62ACL_TYPE_ACCESS
63from a file descriptor.
64The
65.Fn acl_get_fd_np
66function
67is a non-portable form of
68.Fn acl_get_fd
69that allows the retrieval of any type of ACL from a file descriptor.
70.Fn acl_get_file
71is a POSIX.1e call that allows the retrieval of a
72specified type of ACL from a file by name;
73.Fn acl_get_link_np
74is a non-portable variation on
75.Fn acl_get_file
76which does not follow a symlink if the target of the call is a
77symlink.
78.Pp
79These functions may cause memory to be allocated.  The caller should free
80any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling
81.Xr acl_free 3
82with the
83.Va (void *)acl_t
84as an argument.
85.Pp
86The ACL in the working storage is an independent copy of the ACL associated
87with the object referred to by
88.Va fd .
89The ACL in the working storage shall not participate in any access control
90decisions.
91.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
92.Fx Ns 's
93support for POSIX.1e interfaces and features is still under
94development at this time.
95.Sh RETURN VALUES
96Upon successful completion, the function shall return a pointer to the ACL
97that was retrieved.  Otherwise, a value of
98.Va (acl_t)NULL
99shall be returned, and
100.Va errno
101shall be set to indicate the error.
102.Sh ERRORS
103If any of the following conditions occur, the
104.Fn acl_get_fd
105function shall return a value of
106.Va (acl_t)NULL
107and set
108.Va errno
109to the corresponding value:
110.Bl -tag -width Er
111.It Bq Er EACCES
112Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or the
113object exists and the process does not have appropriate access rights.
114.It Bq Er EBADF
115The
116.Va fd
117argument is not a valid file descriptor.
118.It Bq Er EINVAL
119The ACL type passed is invalid for this file object.
120.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
121A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
122entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
123.It Bq Er ENOENT
124The named object does not exist, or the
125.Va path_p
126argument points to an empty string.
127.It Bq Er ENOMEM
128Insufficient memory available to fulfill request.
129.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
130The file system does not support ACL retrieval.
131.El
132.Sh SEE ALSO
133.Xr acl 3 ,
134.Xr acl_free 3 ,
135.Xr acl_get 3 ,
136.Xr acl_set 3 ,
137.Xr posix1e 3
138.Sh STANDARDS
139POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.  Discussion
140of the draft continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation
141mailing list.  To join this list, see the
142.Fx
143POSIX.1e implementation
144page for more information.
145.Sh HISTORY
146POSIX.1e support was introduced in
147.Fx 4.0 ,
148and development continues.
149.Sh AUTHORS
150.An Robert N M Watson
151