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ACL_SIZE(3)              Library Functions Manual             ACL_SIZE(3)

NAME         top

       acl_size — get the size of the external representation of an ACL

LIBRARY         top

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

SYNOPSIS         top

       <sys/types.h> <sys/acl.h> ssize_t acl_size(acl_t acl)

DESCRIPTION         top

       The acl_size() function return the size, in bytes, of the buffer
       required to hold the exportable, contiguous, persistent form of
       the ACL pointed to by the argument acl, when converted by
       acl_copy_ext().

       Any existing ACL entry descriptors that refer to entries in acl
       continue to refer to the same entries. Any existing ACL pointers
       that refer to the ACL referred to by acl continue to refer to the
       ACL. The order of ACL entries within acl remains unchanged.

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, the acl_size() function returns the size in bytes of
       the contiguous, persistent form of the ACL. On error, a value of
       (ssize_t)-1 is returned and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS         top

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

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

STANDARDS         top

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

SEE ALSO         top

       acl_copy_ext(3), acl(5)

AUTHOR         top

       Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M Watson
       <[email protected]>, and adapted for Linux by Andreas
       Gruenbacher <[email protected]>.

COLOPHON         top

       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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       [email protected]

Linux ACL                     March 23, 2002                  ACL_SIZE(3)

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