> On 2022-02-05, at 22:29, raf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to get at macOS's ACLs from C? > I just need to access them in text form. I'm using > the "POSIX" ACL API, and it compiles and runs, but > it doesn't find anything. The ACL entries that I can > create with chmod +a, and view with ls -e, don't > show up because they're not "POSIX" ACL compatible > (or some similar sensible reason). Searching the net > has only turned up the "POSIX" ACL API so far. > > cheers, > raf >
Apple uses acl_get_link_np() with ACL_TYPE_EXTENDED as the acl_type_t argument. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/file_cmds/blob/file_cmds-321.100.11/ls/ls.c#L847
