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38 .Nd set an ACL for a file
45 .Fn acl_set_fd "int fd" "acl_t acl"
47 .Fn acl_set_fd_np "int fd" "acl_t acl" "acl_type_t type"
49 .Fn acl_set_file "const char *path_p" "acl_type_t type" "acl_t acl"
51 .Fn acl_set_link_np "const char *path_p" "acl_type_t type" "acl_t acl"
59 each associate an ACL with an object referred to by
67 functions are not POSIX.1e calls.
70 function allows only the setting of ACLs of type ACL_TYPE_EXTENDED
73 allows the setting of ACLs of any type.
76 function acts on a symlink rather than its target, if the target of the
81 If any of the following conditions occur, these functions shall return
84 to the corresponding value:
87 Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or the
88 object exists and the process does not have appropriate access rights.
92 argument is not a valid file descriptor.
96 does not point to a valid ACL for this object, or the ACL type
99 is invalid for this object, or both.
100 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
101 A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
102 entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
104 The named object does not exist, or the
106 argument points to an empty string.
108 Insufficient memory available to fulfill request.
110 The directory or file system that would contain the new ACL cannot be
111 extended, or the file system is out of file allocation resources.
113 The file system does not support ACL retrieval.
115 This function requires modification of a file system which is currently
125 POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.
128 .An Robert N M Watson