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29.Dd January 28, 2000
30.Dt ACL_VALID 3
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm acl_valid ,
34.Nm acl_valid_fd_np ,
35.Nm acl_valid_file_np
36.Nd validate an ACL
37.Sh LIBRARY
38.Lb libposix1e
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In sys/types.h
41.In sys/acl.h
42.Ft int
43.Fn acl_valid "acl_t acl"
44.Ft int
45.Fn acl_valid_fd_np "int fd" "acl_type_t type" "acl_t acl"
46.Ft int
47.Fn acl_valid_file_np "const char *path_p" "acl_type_t type" "acl_t acl"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49These functions check that the ACL referred to by the argument
50.Va acl
51is valid.  The POSIX.1e routine,
52.Fn acl_valid ,
53checks this validity only with POSIX.1e ACL semantics, and irrespective
54of the context in which the ACL is to be used.  The non-portable forms,
55.Fn acl_valid_fd_np
56and
57.Fn acl_valid_file_np ,
58allow an ACL to be checked in the context of a specific acl type,
59.Va type ,
60and file system object.  In environments where additional ACL types are
61supported than just POSIX.1e, this makes more sense.
62.Pp
63For POSIX.1e semantics, the checks include:
64.Bd -literal -offset indent
65The three required entries (ACL_USER_OBJ, ACL_GROUP_OBJ,
66and ACL_OTHER) shall exist exactly once in the ACL.  If
67the ACL contains any ACL_USER, ACL_GROUP, or any other
68implementation-defined entries in the file group class
69then one ACL_MASK entry shall also be required.  The ACL
70shall contain at most on ACL_MASK entry.
71.Pp
72The qualifier field shall be unique among all entries of
73the same POSIX.1e ACL facility defined tag type.  The
74tag type field shall contain valid values including any
75implementation-defined values.  Validation of the values
76of the qualifier field is implementation-defined.
77.Ed
78.Pp
79The POSIX.1e
80.Fn acl_valid
81function may reorder the ACL for the purposes of verification; the
82non-portable validation functions will not.
83.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
84.Dx Ns 's
85support for POSIX.1e interfaces and features is still under
86development at this time.
87.Sh RETURN VALUES
88.Rv -std
89.Sh ERRORS
90If any of the following conditions occur, these functions shall return
91-1 and set
92.Va errno
93to the corresponding value:
94.Bl -tag -width Er
95.It Bq Er EACCES
96Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or the
97object exists and the process does not have appropriate access rights.
98.It Bq Er EBADF
99The
100.Va fd
101argument is not a valid file descriptor.
102.It Bq Er EINVAL
103Argument
104.Va acl
105does not point to a valid ACL.
106.Pp
107One or more of the required ACL entries is not present in
108.Va acl .
109.Pp
110The ACL contains entries that are not unique.
111.Pp
112The file system rejects the ACL based on fs-specific semantics issues.
113.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
114A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an
115entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
116.It Bq Er ENOENT
117The named object does not exist, or the
118.Va path_p
119argument points to an empty string.
120.It Bq Er ENOMEM
121Insufficient memory available to fulfill request.
122.It Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
123The file system does not support ACL retrieval.
124.El
125.Sh SEE ALSO
126.Xr acl 3 ,
127.Xr acl_get 3 ,
128.Xr acl_init 3 ,
129.Xr acl_set 3 ,
130.Xr posix1e 3
131.Sh STANDARDS
132POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.  Discussion
133of the draft continues on the cross-platform POSIX.1e implementation
134mailing list.  To join this list, see the
135.Fx
136POSIX.1e implementation
137page for more information.
138.Sh HISTORY
139POSIX.1e support was introduced in
140.Fx 4.0 ,
141and development continues.
142.Sh AUTHORS
143.An Robert N M Watson
144.Sh BUGS
145These features are not yet fully implemented.  In particular, the shipped
146version of UFS/FFS does not support storage of additional security labels,
147and so is unable to (easily) provide support for most of these features.
148