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* OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. *
****************************************************************************/
+/**
+ * The withdrawn POSIX.1e standard specified a security API for POSIX systems.
+ * Although it was never ratified, many of its interfaces are widely deployed
+ * in Unix-like systems. These functions wrap the POSIX.1e APIs if present,
+ * to support things like Access Control Lists and Capabilities.
+ */
+
#ifndef BFS_POSIX1E_H
#define BFS_POSIX1E_H