ACL_CLEAR_PERMS(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 					ACL_CLEAR_PERMS(3)

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@computer.org>.

Linux ACL							  March 23, 2002							 Linux ACL