Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl). The function returns a pointer to a copy of the ACL pointed to by This func‐ tion may cause memory to be allocated. The caller should free any releasable memory, when the new ACL is no longer required, by calling with the returned by as an argument. On success, this function returns a pointer to the working storage. On error, a value of is returned, and is set appropriately. If any of the following conditions occur, the function returns a value of and sets to the corresponding value: The argument is not a valid pointer to an ACL. The to be returned requires more memory than is allowed by the hardware or system‐imposed memory management constraints. IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned) Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by and adapted for Linux by