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