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29 .Nd create an ACL from text
31 Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, \-lacl).
36 .Fn acl_from_text "const char *buf_p"
40 function converts the text form of the ACL referred to by
42 into the internal form of an ACL and returns a pointer to the working storage
43 that contains the ACL. The
45 function accepts as input the long text form and short text form of an ACL as described in
48 This function may cause memory to be allocated. The caller should free any
49 releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling
57 On success, this function returns a pointer to the
58 working storage. On error, a value of
64 If any of the following conditions occur, the
66 function returns a value of
70 to the corresponding value:
75 cannot be translated into an ACL.
79 to be returned requires more memory than is allowed by the hardware or
80 system-imposed memory management constraints.
83 IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (\(lqPOSIX.1e\(rq, abandoned)
90 Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by
91 .An "Robert N M Watson" Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org ,
92 and adapted for Linux by
93 .An "Andreas Gruenbacher" Aq a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at .