NAME

acl_set_permset —

set the permissions of an ACL entry

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

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

int
acl_set_permset(acl_entry_t entry_d, acl_permset_t permset_d);

DESCRIPTION

The acl_set_permset() function is a POSIX.1e call that sets the permissions of ACL entry entry_d with the permissions contained in permset_d.

RETURN VALUES

The acl_set_permset() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

The acl_set_permset() function fails if:

[EINVAL]: Argument entry_d is not a valid descriptor for an ACL entry.

STANDARDS

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

HISTORY

POSIX.1e support was introduced in FreeBSD 4.0. The acl_set_permset() function was added in FreeBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS

The acl_set_permset() function was written by Chris D. Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>.