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 <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>.

Linux ACL                                        March 23, 2002                               ACL_CLEAR_PERMS(3)