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.Dd March 23, 2002
.Dt ACL_FREE 3
.Os "Linux ACL"
.Sh NAME
.Nm acl_free
.Nd release memory allocated to an ACL data object
.Sh LIBRARY
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, \-lacl).
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/types.h
.In sys/acl.h
.Ft int
.Fn acl_free "void *obj_p"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn acl_free
function frees any releasable memory currently allocated by to the ACL data object identified by
.Va obj_p .
The argument
.Va obj_p
may identify an ACL, an ACL entry qualifier, or a pointer to a string
allocated by the
.Fn acl_to_text
function.
.\" .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
.\" True64 prints a compile time warning for acl_free(text) if text was
.\" produced by acl_to_text(). Bad!
.Sh RETURN VALUE
.Rv -std acl_free
.Sh ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occur, the
.Fn acl_free
function returns the value
.Li -1
and and sets
.Va errno
to the corresponding value:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The value of the argument
.Va obj_p
is invalid.
.El
.Sh STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1e draft 17 (\(lqPOSIX.1e\(rq, abandoned)
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acl_copy_int 3 ,
.Xr acl_create_entry 3 ,
.Xr acl_dup 3 ,
.Xr acl_from_text 3 ,
.Xr acl_get_fd ,
.Xr acl_get_file 3 ,
.Xr acl_init 3 ,
.Xr acl 5
.Sh AUTHOR
Derived from the FreeBSD manual pages written by
.An "Robert N M Watson" Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org ,
and adapted for Linux by
.An "Andreas Gruenbacher" Aq a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at .
