Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl). The function checks the ACL referred to by the argument for validity. The three required entries ACL_USER_OBJ, ACL_GROUP_OBJ, and ACL_OTHER must exist exactly once in the ACL. If the ACL contains any ACL_USER or ACL_GROUP entries, then an ACL_MASK entry is also re‐ quired. The ACL may contain at most one ACL_MASK entry. The user identifiers must be unique among all entries of type ACL_USER. The group identifiers must be unique among all entries of type ACL_GROUP. If the ACL referred to by is invalid, returns a posi‐ tive error code that indicates which type of error was detected. The following symbolic error codes are defined: The ACL contains multiple entries that have a tag type that may occur at most once. The ACL contains multiple ACL_USER entries with the same user ID, or multiple ACL_GROUP entries with the same group ID. A required entry is missing. The ACL contains an invalid entry tag type. The function can be used to translate error codes to text messages. In addition, if the pointer is not assigns the number of the ACL entry at which the error was detected to the value pointed to by Entries are numbered starting with zero, in the or‐ der in which they would be returned by the function. If success‐ ful, the function returns if the ACL referred to by is valid, and a positive error code if the ACL is invalid. Otherwise, a value of is returned and the global variable is set to indicate the er‐ ror. If any of the following conditions occur, the function re‐ turns and sets to the corresponding value: The argument is not a valid pointer to an ACL. This is a non‐portable, Linux specific extension to the ACL manipulation functions defined in IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned). Written by