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REVOKE(2)		  FreeBSD System Calls Manual		     REVOKE(2)

NAME
     revoke -- revoke file access

LIBRARY
     Standard C	Library	(libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     revoke(const char *path);

DESCRIPTION
     The revoke() system call 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     device file which has been	revoked	returns	a count	of zero	(end of	file),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() system 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 super user.  The
     revoke() system call is currently supported only for block	and character
     special device files.  It 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
     The revoke() 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
     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 255 characters, or
			an entire path name exceeded 1024 characters.

     [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 translat-
			ing the	pathname.

     [EFAULT]		The path argument points outside the process's allo-
			cated address space.

     [EINVAL]		The implementation does	not support the	revoke() oper-
			ation on the named file.

     [EPERM]		The caller is neither the owner	of the file nor	the
			super user.

SEE ALSO
     close(2), revoke(1)

HISTORY
     The revoke() system call first appeared in	4.3BSD-Reno.

FreeBSD	11.1			 June 4, 1993			  FreeBSD 11.1
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