acl_entries (3) Linux Manual Page

acl_entries – return the number of entries in an ACL

Library

Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).

Synopsis

In sys/types.h In acl/libacl.h Ft int Fn acl_entries acl_t acl

Description

The Fn acl_entries function returns the number of ACL entries that are contained in the ACL referred to by the argument acl

Return Value

The Fn acl_entries function returns the number of entries in acl if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

Errors

If any of the following conditions occur, the Fn acl_entries function returns -1 and sets errno to the corresponding value:

Bq Er EINVAL

The argument acl is not a valid pointer to an ACL.

Standards

This is a non-portable, Linux specific extension to the ACL manipulation functions defined in IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned).

See Also

acl(5)

Author

Written by An Andreas Gruenbacher Aq a.gruenbacher [at] bestbits.at .