NAME

acl_free — free ACL working state

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/acl.h>

int
acl_free(void *obj_p);

DESCRIPTION

The acl_free() call allows the freeing of ACL working space, such as is allocated by acl_dup(3), or acl_from_text(3).

RETURN VALUES

The acl_free() 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_free() function shall return -1 and set errno to the corresponding value:

[EINVAL]

The value of the obj_p argument is invalid.

SEE ALSO

acl(3), acl_dup(3), acl_from_text(3), acl_get(3), acl_init(3), posix1e(3)

STANDARDS

POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.

AUTHORS

Michael Smith
Robert N M Watson