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.Dd March 23, 2002

.Dt ACL_DELETE_DEF_FILE 3

.Os "Linux ACL"

.Sh NAME

.Nm acl_delete_def_file

.Nd delete a default ACL by filename

.Sh LIBRARY

Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, \-lacl).

.Sh SYNOPSIS

.In sys/types.h

.In sys/acl.h

.Ft int

.Fn acl_delete_def_file "const char *path_p"

.Sh DESCRIPTION

The

.Fn acl_delete_def_file

function deletes a default ACL from the directory whose pathname is pointed to by the argument

.Va path_p .

.Pp

The effective user ID of the process must match the owner of the file or

directory or the process must have the CAP_FOWNER capability for the

request to succeed.

.Pp

If the argument

.Va path_p

is not a directory, then the function fails. It is no error if the directory whose pathname is pointed to by the argument

.Va path_p

does not have a default ACL.

.Sh RETURN VALUE

.Rv -std acl_delete_def_file

.Sh ERRORS

If any of the following conditions occur, the

.Fn acl_delete_def_file

function returns the value

.Li -1

and and sets

.Va errno

to the corresponding value:

.Bl -tag -width Er

.It Bq Er EINVAL

The file referred to by

.Va path_p

is not a directory.

.It Bq Er ENOTSUP

The file system on which the file identified by

.Va path_p

is located does not support ACLs, or ACLs are disabled.

.It Bq Er EPERM

The process does not have appropriate privilege to perform the operation to delete the default ACL.

.It Bq Er EROFS

This function requires modification of a file system which is currently read-only.

.El

.Sh STANDARDS

IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (\(lqPOSIX.1e\(rq, abandoned)

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr acl_get_file 3 ,

.Xr acl_set_file 3 ,

.Xr acl 5

.Sh AUTHOR

Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by

.An "Robert N M Watson" Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org ,

and adapted for Linux by

.An "Andreas Gruenbacher" Aq a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at .