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.Dd June 25, 2009
.Dt ACL_DELETE_ENTRY 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm acl_delete_entry ,
.Nm acl_delete_entry_np
.Nd delete an ACL entry from an ACL
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In sys/acl.h
.Ft int
.Fn acl_delete_entry "acl_t acl" "acl_entry_t entry_d"
.Ft int
.Fn acl_delete_entry_np "acl_t acl" "int index"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn acl_delete_entry
function
is a POSIX.1e call that removes the ACL entry
.Fa entry_d
from ACL
.Fa acl .
The
.Fn acl_delete_entry_np
function is a non-portable version that removes the ACL entry
at position
.Fa index
from ACL
.Fa acl .
Positions are numbered starting from zero, i.e. calling
.Fn acl_delete_entry_np
with
.Fa index
argument equal to zero will remove the first ACL entry.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Rv -std acl_delete_entry
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn acl_delete_entry
function fails if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
Argument
.Fa acl
does not point to a valid ACL.
Argument
.Fa entry_d
is not a valid descriptor for an ACL entry in
.Fa acl .
Argument
.Fa index
is out of bounds.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acl 3 ,
.Xr acl_copy_entry 3 ,
.Xr acl_get_entry 3 ,
.Xr posix1e 3
.Sh STANDARDS
POSIX.1e is described in IEEE POSIX.1e draft 17.
.Sh HISTORY
POSIX.1e support was introduced in
.Fx 4.0 .
The
.Fn acl_delete_entry
function was added in
.Fx 5.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Fn acl_delete_entry
function was written by
.An Chris D. Faulhaber Aq jedgar@fxp.org .