ACL_COPY_ENTRY(3) BSD Library Functions Manual ACL_COPY_ENTRY(3)
NAME
acl_copy_entry - copy an ACL entry
LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/acl.h>
int
acl_copy_entry(acl_entry_t dest_d, acl_entry_t src_d);
DESCRIPTION
The acl_copy_entry() function copies the contents of the ACL entry indi-
cated by the src_d descriptor to the existing ACL entry indicated by the
dest_d descriptor. The src_d and dest_d descriptors may refer to entries
in different ACLs.
RETURN VALUE
The acl_copy_entry() function returns the value 0 if successful; other-
wise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to
indicate the error.
ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_copy_entry() function
returns -1 and sets errno to the corresponding value:
[EINVAL] The argument src_d or dest_d is not a valid descriptor
for an ACL entry.
The arguments src_d and dest_d reference the same ACL
entry.
STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 ("POSIX.1e", abandoned)
SEE ALSO
acl_get_entry(3), acl(5)
AUTHOR
Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M Watson
<rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, and adapted for Linux by Andreas Gruenbacher
<a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at>.
Linux ACL March 23, 2002 Linux ACL
