chown(2)                         DG/UX 5.4.2                        chown(2)


NAME
       chown, lchown - change user id and group id of a file

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       int  chown (path, user, group)
       char * path;
       int  user;
       int  group;

       int  lchown (path, user, group)
       char * path;
       int  user;
       int  group;

DESCRIPTION
       Use chown and lchown to set the access of a file:

        path   is the pathname of the file whose access is to be changed. It
               may identify a file of type ordinary, directory, FIFO, block
               special, character special, or symbolic link. The file cannot
               reside on a file system device mounted read-only.

        user   is the new user id (stuid) for the file. A value of -1
               leaves the user id unchanged.

        group  is the new group id (stgid) for the file. A value of -1
               leaves the group id unchanged.

       If the call succeeds, the file's time of last attribute change
       (stctime) is set to the current time.  If the call fails, the user
       id, group id, and attributes of the file remain unchanged.

       The chown(2) and lchown(2) calls operate identically except for their
       handling of symbolic links.  If path is a symbolic link, lchown(2)
       changes the access of the symbolic link, not that of its target. By
       contrast, chown changes the access of the target of the symbolic
       link.

ACCESS CONTROL
       The process must have permission to resolve path.

       The effective user id of the calling process must be superuser, or
       match the user id of the file.

       When customizing the DG/UX system, the installer or administrator may
       restrict access to any file. Use of chown(2) or lchown(2) with a
       restricted file is further limited as follows: (1) only the superuser
       can modify a restricted file's user id; (2) a process whose effective
       user ID matches the user ID of the file may change the group ID, but
       only to the process's effective group ID, or to one of the process's
       supplementary IDs.  To find out whether access to a file is
       restricted, use pathconf(2) with the _PC_CHOWN_RESTRICTED argument.



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chown(2)                         DG/UX 5.4.2                        chown(2)


RETURN VALUE
       0      The user id and group id of the file were successfully
              changed.

       -1     An error occurred.  errno is set to indicate the error.

DIAGNOSTICS
       Errno may be set to one of the following error codes:

       EPERM          Permission to change the file's user and group id is
                      denied.

       EROFS          The named file resides on a file system device mounted
                      read-only.

       ENOENT         The file the pathname resolved to does not exist.

       ENOENT         A non-terminal component of the pathname does not
                      exist.

       ENOTDIR        A non-terminal component of the pathname was not a
                      directory or symbolic link.

       ENAMETOOLONG   The pathname exceeds the length limit for pathnames.

       ENAMETOOLONG   A component of the pathname exceeds the length limit
                      for filenames.

       ENOMEM         There are not enough system resources to resolve the
                      pathname or to expand a symbolic link.

       ELOOP          The number of symbolic links encountered during
                      pathname resolution exceeded MAXSYMLINKS.  A symbolic
                      link cycle is suspected.

       EPERM          The pathname contains a character not in the allowed
                      character set.

       EFAULT         The pathname does not completely reside in the
                      process's address space or the pathname does not
                      terminate in the process's address space.

SEE ALSO
       chmod(1), fchmod(2), fchown(2).













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