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Manual Pages  — ACL_COPY_ENTRY

NAME

acl_copy_entry – copy an ACL entry to another ACL entry

CONTENTS

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/acl.h>

int
acl_copy_entry(acl_entry_t dest_d, acl_entry_t src_d);

DESCRIPTION

The acl_copy_entry() function is a POSIX.1e call that copies the contents of ACL entry src_d to ACL entry dest_d.

RETURN VALUES

The acl_copy_entry function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

The acl_copy_entry() function fails if:
[EINVAL]
  Argument src_d or dest_d is not a valid descriptor for an ACL entry, or arguments src_d and dest_d reference the same ACL entry.

SEE ALSO

acl(3), acl_get_entry(3), posix1e(3)

STANDARDS

POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.

HISTORY

POSIX.1e support was introduced in FreeBSD 4.0 . The acl_copy_entry() function was added in FreeBSD 5.0 .

AUTHORS

The acl_copy_entry() function was written by Chris D. Faulhaber <Mt jedgar@fxp.org>.
ACL_COPY_ENTRY (3) March 10, 2001
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