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