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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Using system calls Post 302171923 by Perderabo on Saturday 1st of March 2008 04:21:40 AM
Old 03-01-2008
System calls are subroutines or functions that can be invoked from a C program. The program that invokes one must test the reurn code to see if it worked. If not, the program may display an error. But what message, if any, will be displayed is up to the programmer who wrote the program.
 

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GETCIFSACL(1)						  CIFS Access Control List Tools					     GETCIFSACL(1)

NAME
getcifsacl - Userspace helper to display an ACL in a security descriptor for Common Internet File System (CIFS) SYNOPSIS
getcifsacl [-v|-r] {file system object} DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the cifs-utils suite. getcifsacl is a userspace helper program for the Linux CIFS client file system. It is intended to display a security descriptor including ACL for a file system object. It is best utilized when an option of cifsacl is specified when mounting a cifs share in conjunction with winbind facility of Samba suite. Fields of an ACE such as SID, type, flags, and mask are displayed separated by /. Numeric values of type, flags, and mask are displayed in hexadecimal format. OPTIONS
-v Print version number and exit. -r Display a security descriptor in raw mode. Values such as type and flags are displayed in hexadecimal format, a SID is not mapped to a name. NOTES
Kernel support for getcifsacl/setcifsacl utilities was initially introduced in the 2.6.37 kernel. SEE ALSO
mount.cifs(8), winbindd(8), setcifsacl(1) AUTHOR
Shirish Pargaonkar wrote the getcifsacl program. The Linux CIFS Mailing list is the preferred place to ask questions regarding these programs. cifs-utils 08/19/2011 GETCIFSACL(1)
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