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ACL_TO_ANY_TEXT(3) Library Functions Manual ACL_TO_ANY_TEXT(3)
acl_to_any_text — convert an ACL to text
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
<sys/types.h> <acl/libacl.h> char * acl_to_any_text(acl_t acl,
const char *prefix, char separator, int options)
The acl_to_any_text() function translates the ACL pointed to by
the argument acl into a NULL terminated character string. This
character string is composed of the ACL entries contained in acl,
in the entry text format described on acl(5). Entries are
separated from each other by the separator character. If the
argument prefix is not (const char *)NULL, each entry is prefixed
by this character string.
If the argument options is 0, ACL entries are converted using the
entry tag type keywords user, group, mask, and other. User IDs
and group IDs of ACL entries that contain such qualifiers are
converted to their corresponding names; if an identifier has no
corresponding name, a decimal number string is produced. The ACL
text representation contains no additional comments. A bitwise
combinations of the following options can be used to modify the
result:
TEXT_ABBREVIATE
Instead of the full tag type keywords, single letter
abbreviations are used. The abbreviation for user is u,
the abbreviation for group is g, the abbreviation for mask
is m, and the abbreviation for other is o.
TEXT_NUMERIC_IDS
User IDs and group IDs are included as decimal numbers
instead of names.
TEXT_SOME_EFFECTIVE
A comment containing the effective permissions of the ACL
entry is included after ACL entries that contain
permissions which are ineffective because they are masked
by an ACL_MASK entry. The ACL entry and the comment are
separated by a tab character.
TEXT_ALL_EFFECTIVE
A comment containing the effective permissions of the ACL
entry is included after all ACL entries that are affected
by an ACL_MASK entry. The comment is included even if the
permissions contained in the ACL entry equal the effective
permissions. The ACL entry and the comment are separated
by a tab character.
TEXT_SMART_INDENT
This option is used in combination with the
TEXT_SOME_EFFECTIVE or TEXT_ALL_EFFECTIVE option. The
number of tab characters inserted between the ACL entry
and the comment is increased so that the comment is
aligned to the fourth tab stop position. A tab width of 8
characters is assumed.
The ACL referred to by acl is not changed.
This function allocates any memory necessary to contain the string
and returns a pointer to the string. The caller should free any
releasable memory, when the new string is no longer required, by
calling acl_free() with the (void*)char returned by
acl_to_any_text() as an argument.
On success, this function returns a pointer to the text
representation of the ACL. On error, a value of (char *)NULL is
returned, and errno is set appropriately.
If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_to_any_text()
function returns a value of (char *)NULL and sets errno to the
corresponding value:
[EINVAL] The argument acl is not a valid pointer to an
ACL.
The ACL referenced by acl contains one or more
improperly formed ACL entries, or for some
other reason cannot be translated into the text
form of an ACL.
[ENOMEM] The character string to be returned requires
more memory than is allowed by the hardware or
system-imposed memory management constraints.
This is a non-portable, Linux specific extension to the ACL
manipulation functions defined in IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17
(“POSIX.1e”, abandoned).
acl_from_text(3), acl_to_text(3), acl_free(3), acl(5)
Written by Andreas Gruenbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>.
This page is part of the acl (manipulating access control lists)
project. Information about the project can be found at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/acl. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see
⟨http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=acl⟩. This page was
obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/acl.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that
time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the
repository was 2025-05-12.) If you discover any rendering
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(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
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Linux ACL March 25, 2002 ACL_TO_ANY_TEXT(3)
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