NAME¶
acl_entries
—
return the number of entries in an ACL
LIBRARY¶
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include
<acl/libacl.h>
int
acl_entries
(
acl_t
acl);
DESCRIPTION¶
The
acl_entries
() function returns the number
of ACL entries that are contained in the ACL referred to by the argument
acl.
RETURN VALUE¶
The
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
acl_entries
() function returns
-1
and sets
errno to
the corresponding value:
- [
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
Andreas Gruenbacher
⟨a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at⟩.