NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     acl_add_perm -- add permissions to a permission set

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

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

     int
     acl_add_perm(acl_permset_t permset_d, acl_perm_t perm);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The acl_add_perm() function is a POSIX.1e call that adds the permission
     contained in perm to the permission set permset_d.

     Note: it is not considered an error to attempt to add permissions that
     already exist in the permission set.

RETURN VALUES    [Toc]    [Back]

     The acl_add_perm() 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    [Toc]    [Back]

     The acl_add_perm() function fails if:

     [EINVAL]		Argument permset_d is not a valid descriptor for a
			permission set within an ACL entry.  Argument perm
			does not contain a valid acl_perm_t value.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     acl(3), acl_clear_perms(3), acl_delete_perm(3), acl_get_permset(3),
     acl_set_permset(3), posix1e(3)

STANDARDS    [Toc]    [Back]

     POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     POSIX.1e support was introduced in FreeBSD 4.0.  The acl_add_perm() function
 was added in FreeBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The acl_add_perm() function was written by Chris D. Faulhaber
     <[email protected]>.


FreeBSD 5.2.1			March 10, 2001			 FreeBSD 5.2.1