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26.Dd June 25, 2009
27.Dt ACL_DELETE_ENTRY 3
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm acl_delete_entry ,
31.Nm acl_delete_entry_np
32.Nd delete an ACL entry from an ACL
33.Sh LIBRARY
34.Lb libc
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36.In sys/types.h
37.In sys/acl.h
38.Ft int
39.Fn acl_delete_entry "acl_t acl" "acl_entry_t entry_d"
40.Ft int
41.Fn acl_delete_entry_np "acl_t acl" "int index"
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Fn acl_delete_entry
45function
46is a POSIX.1e call that removes the ACL entry
47.Fa entry_d
48from ACL
49.Fa acl .
50The
51.Fn acl_delete_entry_np
52function is a non-portable version that removes the ACL entry
53at position
54.Fa index
55from ACL
56.Fa acl .
57Positions are numbered starting from zero, i.e. calling
58.Fn acl_delete_entry_np
59with
60.Fa index
61argument equal to zero will remove the first ACL entry.
62.Sh RETURN VALUES
63.Rv -std acl_delete_entry
64.Sh ERRORS
65The
66.Fn acl_delete_entry
67function fails if:
68.Bl -tag -width Er
69.It Bq Er EINVAL
70Argument
71.Fa acl
72does not point to a valid ACL.
73Argument
74.Fa entry_d
75is not a valid descriptor for an ACL entry in
76.Fa acl .
77Argument
78.Fa index
79is out of bounds.
80.El
81.Sh SEE ALSO
82.Xr acl 3 ,
83.Xr acl_copy_entry 3 ,
84.Xr acl_get_entry 3 ,
85.Xr posix1e 3
86.Sh STANDARDS
87POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.
88.Sh HISTORY
89POSIX.1e support was introduced in
90.Fx 4.0 .
91The
92.Fn acl_delete_entry
93function was added in
94.Fx 5.0 .
95.Sh AUTHORS
96The
97.Fn acl_delete_entry
98function was written by
99.An Chris D. Faulhaber Aq Mt jedgar@fxp.org .
100