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ACL_DELETE_DEF_FILE(3) Library Functions Manual ACL_DELETE_DEF_FILE(3)

NAME
acl_delete_def_file — delete a default ACL by filename

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

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/acl.h>

int
acl_delete_def_file(const char *path_p);

DESCRIPTION
The acl_delete_def_file() function deletes a default ACL from the directory whose pathname is pointed to by the
argument path_p.

The effective user ID of the process must match the owner of the file or directory or the process must have the
CAP_FOWNER capability for the request to succeed.

If the argument path_p is not a directory, then the function fails. It is no error if the directory whose path‐
name is pointed to by the argument path_p does not have a default ACL.

RETURN VALUE
The acl_delete_def_file() 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_delete_def_file() function returns the value -1 and and sets
errno to the corresponding value:

[EINVAL] The file referred to by path_p is not a directory.

[ENOTSUP] The file system on which the file identified by path_p is located does not support ACLs, or
ACLs are disabled.

[EPERM] The process does not have appropriate privilege to perform the operation to delete the default
ACL.

[EROFS] This function requires modification of a file system which is currently read-only.

STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (“POSIX.1e”, abandoned)

SEE ALSO
acl_get_file(3), acl_set_file(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_DELETE_DEF_FILE(3)