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ACL_CHECK(3)		 BSD Library Functions Manual		  ACL_CHECK(3)

NAME
     acl_check — check an ACL for validity

LIBRARY
     Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).

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

     int
     acl_check(acl_t acl, int *last);

DESCRIPTION
     The acl_check() function checks the ACL referred to by the argument acl
     for validity.

     The three required entries ACL_USER_OBJ, ACL_GROUP_OBJ, and ACL_OTHER
     must exist exactly once in the ACL. If the ACL contains any ACL_USER or
     ACL_GROUP entries, then an ACL_MASK entry is also required. The ACL may
     contain at most one ACL_MASK entry.

     The user identifiers must be unique among all entries of type ACL_USER.
     The group identifiers must be unique among all entries of type ACL_GROUP.

     If the ACL referred to by acl is invalid, acl_check() returns a positive
     error code that indicates which type of error was detected.  The follow‐
     ing symbolic error codes are defined:

     ACL_MULTI_ERROR	   The ACL contains multiple entries that have a tag
			   type that may occur at most once.

     ACL_DUPLICATE_ERROR   The ACL contains multiple ACL_USER entries with the
			   same user ID, or multiple ACL_GROUP entries with
			   the same group ID.

     ACL_MISS_ERROR	   A required entry is missing.

     ACL_ENTRY_ERROR	   The ACL contains an invalid entry tag type.

     The acl_error() function can be used to translate error codes to text
     messages.

     In addition, if the pointer last is not NULL, acl_check() assigns the
     number of the ACL entry at which the error was detected to the value
     pointed to by last.  Entries are numbered starting with zero, in the
     order in which they would be returned by the acl_get_entry() function.

RETURN VALUE
     If successful, the acl_check() function returns 0 if the ACL referred to
     by acl is valid, and a positive error code if the ACL is invalid. Other‐
     wise, a value of -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to
     indicate the error.

ERRORS
     If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_check() function
     returns -1 and sets errno to the corresponding value:

     [EINVAL]		The argument acl is not a valid pointer to an ACL.

STANDARDS
     This is a non-portable, Linux specific extension to the ACL manipulation
     functions defined in IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned).

SEE ALSO
     acl_valid(3), acl(5)

AUTHOR
     Written by Andreas Gruenbacher ⟨a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at⟩.

Linux ACL			March 23, 2002			     Linux ACL
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