getacl.2 (2010 09)

getacl(2) getacl(2)

[EINVAL] nentries is non-zero and less than the number of entries in the ﬁle’s ACL, or it is

greater than

NACLENTRIES.

[ENOSYS] The function is not supported by this ﬁle system type.

[ENFILE] The system ﬁle table is full.

EXAMPLES

The following call returns the number of entries in the ACL on ﬁle

/users/bill/mcfile

#include <sys/acl.h>

entries = getacl ("/users/bill/mcfile", 0, (struct acl_entry ∗) 0);

The following call returns in acl all entries in the ACL on the ﬁle opened with ﬁle descriptor 5.

#include <sys/acl.h>

int nentries;

struct acl_entry acl [NACLENTRIES];

entries = fgetacl (5, NACLENTRIES, acl);

DEPENDENCIES

getacl() and fgetacl() are only supported on HFS ﬁle system on standard HP-UX operating sys-

tem.

AUTHOR

getacl() and fgetacl() were developed by HP.