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ACLFROMTEXT(3) Library Functions Manual ACLFROMTEXT(3)

NAME top

   **acl_to_text** — convert an ACL to text

LIBRARY top

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

SYNOPSIS top

   <_sys/types.h_> <_sys/acl.h_> _char *_ **acl_to_text**(_aclt acl_, _ssizet_
   _*lenp_)

DESCRIPTION top

   The **acl_to_text**() function translates the ACL pointed to by the
   argument _acl_ into a **NULL** terminated character string.  If the
   pointer _lenp_ is not **NULL**, then the function returns the length of
   the string (not including the **NULL** terminator) in the location
   pointed to by _lenp_.  The format of the text string returned by
   **acl_to_text**() is the long text form defined in _acl_(5).  The ACL
   referred to by _acl_ is not changed.

   This function allocates any memory necessary to contain the string
   and returns a pointer to the string.  The caller should free any
   releasable memory, when the new string is no longer required, by
   calling _aclfree_(3) with the _(void*)char_ returned by **acl_to_text**()
   as an argument.

RETURN VALUE top

   On success, this function returns a pointer to the long text form
   of the ACL.  On error, a value of **(char *)NULL** is returned, and
   _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ is set appropriately.

ERRORS top

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

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

                      The ACL referenced by _acl_ contains one or more
                      improperly formed ACL entries, or for some
                      other reason cannot be translated into a text
                      form of an ACL.

   [ENOMEM]           The character string to be returned 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

   _aclfree_(3), _aclfromtext_(3), _acltoanytext_(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>.

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Linux ACL March 23, 2002 ACLFROMTEXT(3)