.\" Access Control Lists manual pages .\" .\" (C) 2002 Andreas Gruenbacher, .\" .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as .\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of .\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" .\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any .\" document formatting or typesetting system, including .\" intermediate and printed output. .\" .\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public .\" License along with this manual. If not, see .\" . .\" .Dd March 23, 2002 .Dt ACL_FROM_TEXT 3 .Os "Linux ACL" .Sh NAME .Nm acl_from_text .Nd create an ACL from text .Sh LIBRARY Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, \-lacl). .Sh SYNOPSIS .In sys/types.h .In sys/acl.h .Ft acl_t .Fn acl_from_text "const char *buf_p" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn acl_from_text function converts the text form of the ACL referred to by .Va buf_p into the internal form of an ACL and returns a pointer to the working storage that contains the ACL. The .Fn acl_from_text function accepts as input the long text form and short text form of an ACL as described in .Xr acl 5 . .Pp This function may cause memory to be allocated. The caller should free any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling .Xr acl_free 3 with the .Va (void*)acl_t returned by .Fn acl_from_text as an argument. .Sh RETURN VALUE On success, this function returns a pointer to the working storage. On error, a value of .Li (acl_t)NULL is returned, and .Va errno is set appropriately. .Sh ERRORS If any of the following conditions occur, the .Fn acl_from_text function returns a value of .Li (acl_t)NULL and sets .Va errno to the corresponding value: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL The argument .Va buf_p cannot be translated into an ACL. .It Bq Er ENOMEM The .Va acl_t to be returned requires more memory than is allowed by the hardware or system-imposed memory management constraints. .El .Sh STANDARDS IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (\(lqPOSIX.1e\(rq, abandoned) .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr acl_free 3 , .Xr acl_get_entry 3 , .Xr acl_to_text 3 , .Xr acl 5 .Sh AUTHOR Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by .An "Robert N M Watson" Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org , and adapted for Linux by .An "Andreas Gruenbacher" Aq a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at .