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28.Dd January 28, 2000
29.Dt ACL_VALID 3
30.Os FreeBSD 4.0
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm acl_valid ,
33.Nm acl_valid_fd_np ,
34.Nm acl_valid_file_np
35.Nd Validate an ACL
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
38.Fd #include <sys/acl.h>
39.Ft int
40.Fn acl_valid "acl_t acl"
41.Ft int
42.Fn acl_valid_fd_np "int fd" "acl_type_t type" "acl_t acl"
43.Ft int
44.Fn acl_valid_file_np "const char *path_p" "acl_type_t type" "acl_t acl"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46These functions check that the ACL referred to by the argument
47.Va acl
48is valid.  The POSIX.1e routine,
49.Fn acl_valid ,
50checks this validity only with POSIX.1e ACL semantics, and irrespective
51of the context in which the ACL is to be used.  The non-portable forms,
52.Fn acl_valid_fd_np
53and
54.Fn acl_valid_file_np ,
55allow an ACL to be checked in the context of a specific acl type,
56.Va type ,
57and file system object.  In environments where additional ACL types are
58supported than just POSIX.1e, this makes more sense.
59
60For POSIX.1e semantics, the checks include:
61.Bd -literal -offset indent
62The three required entries (ACL_USER_OBJ, ACL_GROUP_OBJ,
63and ACL_OTHER) shall exist exactly once in the ACL.  If
64the ACL contains any ACL_USER, ACL_GROUP, or any other
65implementation-defined entries in the file group class
66then one ACL_MASK entry shall also be required.  The ACL
67shall contain at most on ACL_MASK entry.
68
69The qualifier field shall be unique among all entries of
70the same POSIX.1e ACL facility defined tag type.  The
71tag type field shall contain valid values including any
72implementation-defined values.  Validation of the values
73of the qualifier field is implementation-defined.
74.Ed
75
76The POSIX.1e
77.Fn acl_valid
78function may reorder the ACL for the purposes of verification; the
79non-portable validation functions will not.
80.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
81FreeBSD's support for POSIX.1e interfaces and features is still under
82development at this time.
83.Sh RETURN VALUES
84Upon successful completion, the function shall return a value of zero.
85Otherwise, a value of -1 shall be returned and
86.Va errno
87shall be set to indicate the error.
88.Sh ERRORS
89If any of the following conditions occur, these functions shall return
90-1 and set
91.Va errno
92to the corresponding value:
93.Bl -tag -width Er
94.It Bq Er EACCES
95Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or the
96object exists and the process does not have appropriate access rights.
97.It Bq Er EBADF
98The
99.Va fd
100argument is not a valid file descriptor.
101.It Bq Er EINVAL
102Argument
103.Va acl
104does not point to a valid ACL.
105
106One or more of the required ACL entries is not present in
107.Va acl .
108
109The ACL contains entries that are not unique.
110
111The file system rejects the ACL based on fs-specific semantics issues.
112.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
113A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
114entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
115.It Bq Er ENOENT
116The named object does not exist, or the
117.Va path_p
118argument points to an empty string.
119.It Bq Er ENOMEM
120Insufficient memory available to fulfill request.
121.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
122The file system does not support ACL retrieval.
123.El
124.Sh SEE ALSO
125.Xr acl 3 ,
126.Xr acl_get 3 ,
127.Xr acl_init 3 ,
128.Xr acl_set 3 ,
129.Xr posix1e 3
130.Sh STANDARDS
131POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.  Discussion
132of the draft continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation
133mailing list.  To join this list, see the FreeBSD POSIX.1e implementation
134page for more information.
135.Sh HISTORY
136POSIX.1e support was introduced in
137.Fx 4.0 ,
138and development continues.
139.Sh AUTHORS
140.An Robert N M Watson
141.Sh BUGS
142These features are not yet fully implemented.  In particular, the shipped
143version of UFS/FFS does not support storage of additional security labels,
144and so is unable to (easily) provide support for most of these features.
145