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ACLCREATEENTRY(3) Library Functions Manual ACLCREATEENTRY(3)

NAME top

   **acl_create_entry** — create a new ACL entry

LIBRARY top

   Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).

SYNOPSIS top

   <_sys/types.h_> <_sys/acl.h_> _int_ **acl_create_entry**(_aclt *aclp_,
   _aclentryt *entryp_)

DESCRIPTION top

   The **acl_create_entry**() function creates a new ACL entry in the ACL
   pointed to by the contents of the pointer argument _aclp_.  On
   success, the function returns a descriptor for the new ACL entry
   via _entryp_.

   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 _aclfree_(3) with _(void*)*aclp_ as an
   argument.  If the ACL working storage cannot be increased in the
   current location, then the working storage for the ACL pointed to
   by _aclp_ may be relocated and the previous working storage is
   released. A pointer to the new working storage is returned via
   _aclp_.

   The components of the new ACL entry are initialized in the
   following ways: the ACL tag type component contains
   ACL_UNDEFINED_TAG, the qualifier component contains
   ACL_UNDEFINED_ID, and the set of permissions has no permissions
   enabled. Any existing ACL entry descriptors that refer to entries
   in the ACL continue to refer to those entries.

RETURN VALUE top

   The **acl_create_entry**() function returns the value 0 if successful;
   otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_
   is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS top

   If any of the following conditions occur, the **acl_create_entry**()
   function returns **-1** and sets _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ to the corresponding value:

   [EINVAL]           The argument _aclp_ is not a valid pointer to an
                      ACL.

   [ENOMEM]           The ACL working storage requires more memory
                      than is allowed by the hardware or system-
                      imposed memory management constraints.

STANDARDS top

   IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned)

SEE ALSO top

   _aclinit_(3), _acldeleteentry_(3), _aclfree_(3),
   _aclcreateentry_(3), _acl_(5)

AUTHOR top

   Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M Watson
   <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, and adapted for Linux by Andreas
   Gruenbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>.

COLOPHON top

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Linux ACL March 23, 2002 ACLCREATEENTRY(3)