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29 .Nd get the size of the external representation of an ACL
31 Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, \-lacl).
36 .Fn acl_size "acl_t acl"
40 function return the size, in bytes, of the buffer required to hold the exportable, contiguous, persistent form of the ACL pointed to by the argument
45 Any existing ACL entry descriptors that refer to entries in
47 continue to refer to the same entries. Any existing ACL pointers that refer
48 to the ACL referred to by
50 continue to refer to the ACL. The order of ACL entries within
56 function returns the size in bytes of the contiguous, persistent form of
57 the ACL. On error, a value of
63 If any of the following conditions occur, the
65 function returns a value of
69 to the corresponding value:
74 is not a valid pointer to an ACL.
77 IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (\(lqPOSIX.1e\(rq, abandoned)
82 Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by
83 .An "Robert N M Watson" Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org ,
84 and adapted for Linux by
85 .An "Andreas Gruenbacher" Aq a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at .