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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 ,
57and
58.Fn acl_get_fd_np
59each allow the retrieval of an ACL from a file.
60The
61.Fn acl_get_fd
62is a POSIX.1e call that allows the retrieval of an ACL of type
63ACL_TYPE_ACCESS
64from a file descriptor.
65The
66.Fn acl_get_fd_np
67function
68is a non-portable form of
69.Fn acl_get_fd
70that allows the retrieval of any type of ACL from a file descriptor.
71The
72.Fn acl_get_file
73function is a POSIX.1e call that allows the retrieval of a
74specified type of ACL from a file by name;
75.Fn acl_get_link_np
76is a non-portable variation on
77.Fn acl_get_file
78which does not follow a symlink if the target of the call is a
79symlink.
80.Pp
81These functions may cause memory to be allocated.  The caller should free
82any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling
83.Xr acl_free 3
84with the
85.Va (void *)acl_t
86as an argument.
87.Pp
88The ACL in the working storage is an independent copy of the ACL associated
89with the object referred to by
90.Va fd .
91The ACL in the working storage shall not participate in any access control
92decisions.
93.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
94.Fx Ns 's
95support for POSIX.1e interfaces and features is still under
96development at this time.
97.Sh RETURN VALUES
98Upon successful completion, the function shall return a pointer to the ACL
99that was retrieved.  Otherwise, a value of
100.Va (acl_t)NULL
101shall be returned, and
102.Va errno
103shall be set to indicate the error.
104.Sh ERRORS
105If any of the following conditions occur, the
106.Fn acl_get_fd
107function shall return a value of
108.Va (acl_t)NULL
109and set
110.Va errno
111to the corresponding value:
112.Bl -tag -width Er
113.It Bq Er EACCES
114Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or the
115object exists and the process does not have appropriate access rights.
116.It Bq Er EBADF
117The
118.Va fd
119argument is not a valid file descriptor.
120.It Bq Er EINVAL
121The ACL type passed is invalid for this file object.
122.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
123A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
124entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
125.It Bq Er ENOENT
126The named object does not exist, or the
127.Va path_p
128argument points to an empty string.
129.It Bq Er ENOMEM
130Insufficient memory available to fulfill request.
131.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
132The file system does not support ACL retrieval.
133.El
134.Sh SEE ALSO
135.Xr acl 3 ,
136.Xr acl_free 3 ,
137.Xr acl_get 3 ,
138.Xr acl_set 3 ,
139.Xr posix1e 3
140.Sh STANDARDS
141POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.  Discussion
142of the draft continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation
143mailing list.  To join this list, see the
144.Fx
145POSIX.1e implementation
146page for more information.
147.Sh HISTORY
148POSIX.1e support was introduced in
149.Fx 4.0 ,
150and development continues.
151.Sh AUTHORS
152.An Robert N M Watson
153