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.Dd March 23, 2002

.Dt ACL_DELETE_ENTRY 3

.Os "Linux ACL"

.Sh NAME

.Nm acl_delete_entry

.Nd delete an ACL entry

.Sh LIBRARY

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

.Sh SYNOPSIS

.In sys/types.h

.In sys/acl.h

.Ft int

.Fn acl_delete_entry "acl_t acl" "acl_entry_t entry_d"

.Sh DESCRIPTION

The

.Fn acl_delete_entry

function removes the ACL entry indicated by the

.Va entry_d

descriptor from the ACL pointed to by

.Va acl .

Any existing ACL entry descriptors that refer to entries in

.Va acl

other than that referred to by

.Va entry_d

continue to refer to the same entries. The argument

.Va entry_d

and any other ACL entry descriptors that refer to the same ACL entry are

undefined after this function completes. Any existing ACL pointers that

refer to the ACL referred to by

.Va acl

continue to refer to the ACL.

.Sh RETURN VALUE

.Rv -std acl_delete_entry

.Sh ERRORS

If any of the following conditions occur, the

.Fn acl_delete_entry

function returns

.Li -1

and sets

.Va errno

to the corresponding value:

.Bl -tag -width Er

.It Bq Er EINVAL

The argument

.Va acl_p

is not a valid pointer to an ACL.

.Pp

The argument

.Va entry_d

is not a valid pointer to an ACL entry.

.El

.Sh STANDARDS

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

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr acl_copy_entry 3 ,

.Xr acl_create_entry 3 ,

.Xr acl_get_entry 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 .