freebsd-nq/lib/libposix1e/acl_get.3

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.Dd January 28, 2000
.Dt ACL_GET 3
.Os FreeBSD 4.0
.Sh NAME
.Nm acl_get_fd ,
.Nm acl_get_fd_np ,
.Nm acl_get_file
.Nd get an ACL for a file
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libposix1e
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
.Fd #include <sys/acl.h>
.Ft acl_t
.Fn acl_get_file "const char *path_p" "acl_type_t type"
.Ft acl_t
.Fn acl_get_fd "int fd"
.Ft acl_t
.Fn acl_get_fd_np "int fd" "acl_type_t type"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn acl_get_file ,
.Fn acl_get_fd ,
and
.Fn acl_get_fd_np
each allow the retrieval of an ACL from a file.
.Fn acl_get_file 
is a POSIX.1e call that allows the retrieval of a
specified type of ACL from a file by name;
.Fn acl_get_fd 
is a POSIX.1e call that allows the retrieval of an ACL of type
ACL_TYPE_ACCESS
from a file descriptor.
.Fn acl_get_fd_np
is a non-portable form of
.Fn acl_get_fd
that allows the retrieval of any type of ACL from a file descriptor.

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
as an argument.

The ACL in the working storage is an independent copy of the ACL associated
with the object referred to by
.Va fd .
The ACL in the working storage shall not participate in any access control
decisions.
.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
FreeBSD's support for POSIX.1e interfaces and features is still under
development at this time.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the function shall return a pointer to the ACL
that was retrieved.  Otherwise, a value of
.Va (acl_t)NULL
shall be returned, and
.Va errno
shall be set to indicate the error.
.Sh ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occur, the
.Fn acl_get_fd
function shall return a value of
.Va (acl_t)NULL
and set
.Va errno
to the corresponding value:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EACCES
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or the
object exists and the process does not have appropriate access rights.
.It Bq Er EBADF
The
.Va fd
argument is not a valid file descriptor.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The ACL type passed is invalid for this file object.
.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
.It Bq Er ENOENT
The named object does not exist, or the
.Va path_p
argument points to an empty string.
.It Bq Er ENOMEM
Insufficient memory available to fulfill request.
.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
The file system does not support ACL retrieval.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acl 3 ,
.Xr acl_free 3 ,
.Xr acl_get 3 ,
.Xr acl_set 3 ,
.Xr posix1e 3
.Sh STANDARDS
POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.  Discussion
of the draft continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation
mailing list.  To join this list, see the
.Fx
POSIX.1e implementation
page for more information.
.Sh HISTORY
POSIX.1e support was introduced in
.Fx 4.0 ,
and development continues.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Robert N M Watson
.Sh BUGS
These features are not yet fully implemented.  In particular, the shipped
version of UFS/FFS does not support storage of additional security labels,
and so is unable to (easily) provide support for most of these features.