REVOKE(2) BSD Programmer's Manual REVOKE(2)
revoke - revoke file access
#include <unistd.h> int revoke(const char *path);
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operations on any such descriptors fail, with the exceptions that a read() from a character dev- ice file which has been revoked returns a count of zero (end of file), and a close() call will succeed.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 dev- ice 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.
A 0 value indicated that the call succeeded. A -1 return value indicates an error occurred and errno is set to indicated the reason. ex- ist. [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 su- peruser.
close(2)
The revoke function was introduced in 4.3BSD-Reno..