acl_clear_perms(3)

acl_clear_perms3

Clear permissions from a permission set

Usage

#include <sys/types.h>

#include <sys/acl.h>

int

acl_clear_perms(acl_permset_t permset_d);

Library

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The acl_clear_perms() function is a POSIX.1e call that clears all permissions from permissions set permset_d.

Return values

The acl_clear_perms() 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

The acl_clear_perms() function fails if:

[EINVAL]

Argument permset_d is not a valid descriptor for a permission set.

Releases

56 releases since FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE; the text changed 33 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 5.1–6.3
  3. 6.4
  4. 7.0
  5. 7.1
  6. 7.2
  7. 7.3
  8. 7.4
  9. 8.0
  10. 8.1
  11. 8.2
  12. 8.3
  13. 8.4
  14. 9.0
  15. 9.1
  16. 9.2
  17. 9.3
  18. 10.0
  19. 10.1
  20. 10.2
  21. 10.3
  22. 10.4
  23. 11.0
  24. 11.1
  25. 11.2
  26. 11.3
  27. 11.4
  28. 12.0
  29. 12.1
  30. 12.2
  31. 12.3
  32. 12.4
  33. 13.0–13.2
  34. 13.3–16.0

Standards

POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.

History

POSIX.1e support was introduced in FreeBSD 4.0. The acl_clear_perms() function was added in FreeBSD 5.0.

Authors

The acl_clear_perms() function was written by Chris D. Faulhaber ⟨[email protected]⟩.

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