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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 .