NAME

     acl_calc_mask — calculate the file group class mask

LIBRARY

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

SYNOPSIS

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

     int
     acl_calc_mask(acl_t *acl_p);

DESCRIPTION

     The acl_calc_mask() function calculates and sets the permissions associated with the
     ACL_MASK ACL entry of the ACL referred to by acl_p.  The value of the new permissions is the
     union of the permissions granted by all entries of tag type ACL_GROUP, ACL_GROUP_OBJ, or
     ACL_USER.  If the ACL referred to by acl_p already contains an ACL_MASK entry, its
     permissions are overwritten; if it does not contain an ACL_MASK entry, one is added.

     If the ACL referred to by acl_p does not contain enough space for the new ACL entry, then
     additional working storage may be allocated. If the working storage cannot be increased in
     the current location, then it may be relocated and the previous working storage is released
     and a pointer to the new working storage is returned via acl_p.

     The order of existing entries in the ACL is undefined after this function.

     Any existing ACL entry descriptors that refer to entries in the ACL continue to refer to
     those entries. Any existing ACL pointers that refer to the ACL referred to by acl_p continue
     to refer to the ACL.

RETURN VALUE

     The acl_calc_mask() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is
     returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

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

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

     [ENOMEM]           The acl_calc_mask() function is unable to allocate the memory required
                        for an ACL_MASK ACL entry.

STANDARDS

     IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned)

SEE ALSO

     acl_check(3), acl_get_entry(3), acl_valid(3), acl(5)

AUTHOR

     Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>,
     and adapted for Linux by Andreas Gruenbacher <a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at>.