1ACL_FREE(3)              BSD Library Functions Manual              ACL_FREE(3)
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NAME

4     acl_free — release memory allocated to an ACL data object
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LIBRARY

7     Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
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SYNOPSIS

10     #include <sys/types.h>
11     #include <sys/acl.h>
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13     int
14     acl_free(void *obj_p);
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DESCRIPTION

17     The acl_free() function frees any releasable memory currently allocated
18     by to the ACL data object identified by obj_p.  The argument obj_p may
19     identify an ACL, an ACL entry qualifier, or a pointer to a string allo‐
20     cated by the acl_to_text() function.
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RETURN VALUE

23     The acl_free() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the
24     value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
25     error.
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ERRORS

28     If any of the following conditions occur, the acl_free() function returns
29     the value -1 and and sets errno to the corresponding value:
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31     [EINVAL]           The value of the argument obj_p is invalid.
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STANDARDS

34     IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned)
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SEE ALSO

37     acl_copy_int(3), acl_create_entry(3), acl_dup(3), acl_from_text(3),
38     acl_get_fd, acl_get_file(3), acl_init(3), acl(5)
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AUTHOR

41     Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by Robert N M Watson
42     <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, and adapted for Linux by Andreas Gruenbacher
43     <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>.
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45Linux ACL                       March 23, 2002                       Linux ACL
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