NAME

chown − change owner and group of a file

SYNOPSIS

(chmod = 16.) 
sys chown; name; owner chown(name, owner)
char *name;

DESCRIPTION

The file whose name is given by the null-terminated string pointed to by name has its owner and group changed to the low and high bytes of owner respectively.  Only the super-user may execute this call, because if users were able to give files away, they could defeat the (nonexistent) file-space accounting procedures. 

SEE ALSO

chown (VIII), chgrp (VIII), passwd (V)

DIAGNOSTICS

The error bit (c-bit) is set on illegal owner changes.  From C a −1 returned value indicates error, 0 indicates success.