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ACL_DUP(3) Library Functions ManualACL_DUP(3)acl_dup— duplicate an ACL
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
<sys/types.h> <sys/acl.h>acl_tacl_dup(acl_t acl)
Theacl_dup() function returns a pointer to a copy of the ACL pointed to byacl. This function may cause memory to be allocated. The caller should free any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by callingacl_free(3) with the(void*)acl_t returned byacl_dup() as an argument.
On success, this function returns a pointer to the working storage. On error, a value of(acl_t)NULLis returned, anderrno is set appropriately.
If any of the following conditions occur, theacl_dup() function returns a value of(acl_t)NULLand setserrno to the corresponding value: [EINVAL] The argumentacl is not a valid pointer to an ACL. [ENOMEM] Theacl_t to be returned requires more memory than is allowed by the hardware or system- imposed memory management constraints.
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned)
acl_free(3),acl_get_entry(3),acl(5)
Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, and adapted for Linux by Andreas Gruenbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>.
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