NAME
LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
SYNOPSIS
n sys/types.h
n sys/acl.h
DESCRIPTION
The
function deletes a default ACL from the directory whose pathname is pointed to by the argument
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.
If the argument
is not a directory, then the function fails. It is no error if the directory whose pathname is pointed to by the argument
does not have a default ACL.
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occur, the
function returns the value
and and sets
to the corresponding value:
- EINVAL
The file referred to by
is not a directory.
- ENOTSUP
The file system on which the file identified by
is located does not support ACLs, or ACLs are disabled.
- EPERM
The process does not have appropriate privilege to perform the operation to delete the default ACL.
- EROFS
This function requires modification of a file system which is currently read-only.
STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (POSIX.1e, abandoned)
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by
and adapted for Linux by
