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Query: acl_free

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ACL_FREE(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					       ACL_FREE(3)

NAME
acl_free -- release memory allocated to an ACL data object
LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/acl.h> int acl_free(void *obj_p);
DESCRIPTION
The acl_free() function frees any releasable memory currently allocated by to the ACL data object identified by obj_p. The argument obj_p may identify an ACL, an ACL entry qualifier, or a pointer to a string allocated by the acl_to_text() function.
RETURN VALUE
The acl_free() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indi- cate the error.
ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_free() function returns the value -1 and and sets errno to the corresponding value: [EINVAL] The value of the argument obj_p is invalid.
STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 ("POSIX.1e", abandoned)
SEE ALSO
acl_copy_int(3), acl_create_entry(3), acl_dup(3), acl_from_text(3), acl_get_fd, acl_get_file(3), acl_init(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
Related Man Pages
acl_free(3) - mojave
acl_dup(3) - redhat
acl_from_text(3) - redhat
acl_free(3) - centos
acl_dup(3) - suse
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