acl_to_text(3) [osf1 man page]

acl_to_text(3)						     Library Functions Manual						    acl_to_text(3)

NAME

       acl_to_text - Converts an ACL to an ASCII string

LIBRARY

       Security Library (libpacl.a)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/acl.h>
       char * acl_to_text(	acl_t acl_d	 ssize_t *len_p);

PARAMETERS

       Designates  the	working storage internal representation of an ACL to convert to text external representation.  Pointer to location to hold
       the length of the returned string or NULL.

DESCRIPTION

       NOTE:  This function is based on Draft 13 of the POSIX P1003.6 standard.

       Given an ACL the acl_to_text() function converts it into a NULL terminated ASCII character string. The acl_to_text() function allocates any
       memory necessary and places the length of the string returned at len_p.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon  successful completion, the acl_to_text() function returns an address pointing to the text external representation of the ACL.  Other-
       wise, a value of NULL is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_to_text() function sets errno to the corresponding value:

       The argument acl_d is not in a recognized format.  The argument acl_d contains one or more improperly formatted ACL entries.  There is  not
       enough memory available to the process to allocate the character string.

RELATED INFORMATION

       acl_size(3), acl_from_text(3)

       Security delim off

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ACL_TO_TEXT(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					    ACL_TO_TEXT(3)

NAME

     acl_to_text -- convert an ACL to text

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <sys/acl.h>

     char *
     acl_to_text(acl_t acl, ssize_t *len_p);

DESCRIPTION

     The acl_to_text() function translates the ACL pointed to by argument acl into a NULL terminated character string.	If the pointer len_p is
     not NULL, then the function shall return the length of the string (not including the NULL terminator) in the location pointed to by len_p.
     The format of the text string returned by acl_to_text() for an ACL of type ACL_TYPE_EXTENDED differs from that specified by the POSIX.1e
     standard, and this function cannot translate between formats.

     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 acl_free(3) with the (void*)char as an argument.

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion, the function shall return a pointer to the long text form of an ACL.  Otherwise, a value of (char*)NULL shall be
     returned and errno shall be set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

     If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_to_text() function shall return a value of (acl_t)NULL and set errno to the corresponding
     value:

     [EINVAL]		Argument acl does not point to a valid ACL.

			The ACL denoted 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 software-imposed memory man-
			agement constraints.

SEE ALSO

     acl(3), acl_free(3), acl_from_text(3), posix1e(3)

STANDARDS

     POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.

AUTHORS

     Michael Smith
     Robert N M Watson

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								 January 28, 2000							       BSD