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ACL_FREE(3) | Library Functions Manual | ACL_FREE(3) |
NAME¶
acl_free
— release
memory allocated to an ACL data object
LIBRARY¶
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<sys/types.h>
#include <sys/acl.h>
int
acl_free
(void
*obj_p);
DESCRIPTION¶
The
acl_free
()
function frees any releasable memory currently allocated by to the ACL data
object identified by obj_p. The argument
obj_p may identify an ACL, an ACL entry qualifier, or
a pointer to a string allocated by the
acl_to_text
()
function.
RETURN VALUE¶
The acl_free
() 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¶
If any of the following conditions occur, the
acl_free
() function returns the value
-1
and and sets errno to the
corresponding value:
- [
EINVAL
] - The value of the argument obj_p is invalid.
STANDARDS¶
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned)
SEE ALSO¶
acl_copy_int(3), acl_create_entry(3), acl_dup(3), acl_from_text(3), acl_get_fd, acl_get_file(3), acl_init(3), acl(5)
AUTHOR¶
Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by
Robert N M Watson ⟨rwatson@FreeBSD.org⟩,
and adapted for Linux by
Andreas Gruenbacher
⟨andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com⟩.
March 23, 2002 | Linux ACL |