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.Dd March 23, 2002
.Dt ACL_GET_FILE 3
.Os "Linux ACL"
.Sh NAME
.Nm acl_get_file
.Nd get an ACL by filename
.Sh LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, \-lacl).
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In sys/acl.h
.Ft acl_t
.Fn acl_get_file "const char *path_p" "acl_type_t type"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn acl_get_file
function retrieves the access ACL associated with a file or directory, or the default ACL associated with a directory. The pathname for the file or directory is pointed to by the argument
.Va path_p .
The ACL is placed into working storage and
.Fn acl_get_file
returns a pointer to that storage.
.Pp
In order to read an ACL from an object, a process must have read access to
the object's attributes.
.Pp
The value of the argument
.Va type
is used to indicate whether the access ACL or the default ACL associated with
.Va path_p
is returned. If
.Va type
is ACL_TYPE_ACCESS, the access ACL of
.Va path_p
is returned. If
.Va type
is ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT, the default ACL of
.Va path_p
is returned. If
.Va type
is ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT and no default ACL is associated with the directory
.Va path_p ,
then an ACL containing zero ACL entries is returned. If
.Va type
specifies a type of ACL that cannot be associated with
.Va path_p ,
then the function fails.
.Pp
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
returned by
.Fn acl_get_file
as an argument.
.Sh RETURN VALUE
On success, this function returns a pointer to the
working storage.  On error, a value of
.Li (acl_t)NULL
is returned, and
.Va errno
is set appropriately.
.Sh ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occur, the
.Fn acl_get_file
function returns a value of
.Li (acl_t)NULL
and sets
.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.
.Pp
Argument
.Va type
specifies a type of ACL that cannot be associated with
.Va path_p .
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The argument
.Va type
is not ACL_TYPE_ACCESS or ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT.
.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
The length of the argument
.Va path_p
is too long.
.It Bq Er ENOENT
The named object does not exist or the argument
.Va path_p
points to an empty string.
.It Bq Er ENOMEM
The ACL working storage requires more memory than is allowed by the hardware or system-imposed memory management constraints.
.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
.It Bq Er ENOTSUP
The file system on which the file identified by
.Va path_p
is located does not support ACLs, or ACLs are disabled.
.El
.Sh STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (\(lqPOSIX.1e\(rq, abandoned)
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acl_free 3 ,
.Xr acl_get_entry 3 ,
.Xr acl_get_fd 3 ,
.Xr acl_set_file 3 ,
.Xr acl 5
.Sh AUTHOR
Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by
.An "Robert N M Watson" Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org ,
and adapted for Linux by
.An "Andreas Gruenbacher" Aq a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at .
