NAME
acl_clear_perms - clear all permissions from an ACL permission set
LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/acl.h>
int
acl_clear_perms(acl_permset_t permset_d);
DESCRIPTION
The acl_clear_perms() function clears all permissions from the permission
set referred to by the argument permset_d.
Any existing descriptors that refer to permset_d shall continue to refer
to that permission set.
RETURN VALUE
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
If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_clear_perms() function
returns -1 and sets errno to the corresponding value:
[EINVAL] The argument permset_d is not a valid descriptor for a
permission set within an ACL entry.
STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned)
SEE ALSO
acl_add_perm(3), acl_delete_perm(3), acl_get_perm(3), acl_get_permset(3),
acl_set_permset(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
〈a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at〉.