NAME

acl_clear_perms — clear permissions from a permission set

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/acl.h>

int
acl_clear_perms(acl_permset_t permset_d);

DESCRIPTION

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.

SEE ALSO

acl(3), acl_add_perm(3), acl_delete_perm(3), acl_get_permset(3), acl_set_permset(3), posix1e(3)

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 <jedgar@fxp.org>.