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ACL_SET_FD(3)            Library Functions Manual           ACL_SET_FD(3)

NAME         top

       acl_set_fd — set an ACL by file descriptor

LIBRARY         top

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

SYNOPSIS         top

       <sys/types.h> <sys/acl.h> int acl_set_fd(int fd, acl_t acl)

DESCRIPTION         top

       The acl_set_fd() function associates an access ACL with the file
       referred to by fd.

       The effective user ID of the process must match the owner of the
       file or the process must have the CAP_FOWNER capability for the
       request to succeed.

RETURN VALUE         top

       The acl_set_fd() 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         top

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

       [EBADF]            The fd argument is not a valid file descriptor.

       [EINVAL]           The argument acl does not point to a valid ACL.

                          The ACL has more entries than the file referred
                          to by fd can obtain.

       [ENOSPC]           The directory or file system that would contain
                          the new ACL cannot be extended or the file
                          system is out of file allocation resources.

       [ENOTSUP]          The file identified by fd cannot be associated
                          with the ACL because the file system on which
                          the file is located does not support this.

       [EPERM]            The process does not have appropriate privilege
                          to perform the operation to set the ACL.

       [EROFS]            This function requires modification of a file
                          system which is currently read-only.

STANDARDS         top

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

SEE ALSO         top

       acl_delete_def_file(3), acl_get_file(3), acl_set_file(3),
       acl_valid(3), acl(5)

AUTHOR         top

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

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
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       ⟨git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/acl.git⟩ on 2025-08-11.  (At that
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Linux ACL                     March 23, 2002                ACL_SET_FD(3)

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