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.Dd March 23, 2002
.Dt ACL_GET_PERMSET 3
.Os "Linux ACL"
.Sh NAME
.Nm acl_get_permset
.Nd retrieve the permission set from an ACL entry
.Sh LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, \-lacl).
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In sys/acl.h
.Ft int
.Fn acl_get_permset "acl_entry_t entry_d" "acl_permset_t *permset_p"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn acl_get_permset
function returns in
.Va permset_p
a descriptor to the permission set in the ACL entry indicated by
.Va entry_d .
Subsequent operations using the returned permission set descriptor operate on the permission set within the ACL entry.
.Pp
Any ACL entry descriptors that refer to the entry referred to by
.Va entry_d
shall continue to refer to those entries.
.Sh RETURN VALUE
.Rv -std acl_get_permset
.Sh ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occur, the
.Fn acl_get_permset
function returns
.Li -1
and sets
.Va errno
to the corresponding value:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The argument
.Va entry_d
is not a valid descriptor for an ACL entry.
.El
.Sh STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (\(lqPOSIX.1e\(rq, abandoned)
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acl_add_perm 3 ,
.Xr acl_clear_perms 3 ,
.Xr acl_delete_perm 3 ,
.Xr acl_get_perm 3 ,
.Xr acl_get_qualifier 3 ,
.Xr acl_get_tag_type 3 ,
.Xr acl_set_permset 3 ,
.Xr acl_set_qualifier 3 ,
.Xr acl_set_tag_type 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 .