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 indicate 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 <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com>.

Linux ACL                                        March 23, 2002                                      ACL_FREE(3)