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.Dd March 23, 2002
.Dt ACL_DELETE_ENTRY 3
.Os "Linux ACL"
.Sh NAME
.Nm acl_delete_entry
.Nd delete an ACL entry
.Sh LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, \-lacl).
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In sys/acl.h
.Ft int
.Fn acl_delete_entry "acl_t acl" "acl_entry_t entry_d"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn acl_delete_entry
function removes the ACL entry indicated by the
.Va entry_d
descriptor from the ACL pointed to by
.Va acl .
Any existing ACL entry descriptors that refer to entries in
.Va acl
other than that referred to by
.Va entry_d
continue to refer to the same entries. The argument
.Va entry_d
and any other ACL entry descriptors that refer to the same ACL entry are
undefined after this function completes. Any existing ACL pointers that
refer to the ACL referred to by
.Va acl
continue to refer to the ACL.
.Sh RETURN VALUE
.Rv -std acl_delete_entry
.Sh ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occur, the
.Fn acl_delete_entry
function returns
.Li -1
and sets
.Va errno
to the corresponding value:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The argument
.Va acl_p
is not a valid pointer to an ACL.
.Pp
The argument
.Va entry_d
is not a valid pointer to an ACL entry.
.El
.Sh STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (\(lqPOSIX.1e\(rq, abandoned)
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acl_copy_entry 3 ,
.Xr acl_create_entry 3 ,
.Xr acl_get_entry 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 .
