NAME
revoke —
revoke file access
SYNOPSIS
#include
<unistd.h>
int
revoke(const
char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The
revoke()
function invalidates all current open file descriptors in the system for the
file named by path. Subsequent operations on any such
descriptors fail, with the exceptions that a
read()
from a character device file which has been revoked returns a count of zero
(end of file), and a
close()
call will succeed. If the file is a special file for a device which is open,
the device close function is called as if all open references to the file
had been closed.
Access to a file may be revoked only by its owner or
the superuser. The
revoke()
function is normally used to prepare a terminal device for a new login
session, preventing any access by a previous user of the terminal.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
Access to the named file is revoked unless one of the following:
- [
ENOTDIR] - A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
- [
ENAMETOOLONG] - A component of a pathname exceeded
NAME_MAXcharacters, or an entire pathname (including the terminating NUL) exceededPATH_MAXbytes. - [
ENOENT] - The named file or a component of the path name does not exist.
- [
EACCES] - Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
- [
ELOOP] - Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
- [
EFAULT] - path points outside the process's allocated address space.
- [
EPERM] - The caller is neither the owner of the file nor the superuser.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The revoke() function was introduced in
4.3BSD-Reno.