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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The owner ID and group ID of the file named by or referenced by is changed as specified by the arguments and The owner of a file may change the to a group of which he or she is a member, but the change capability is restricted to the super-user. clears the set-user-id and set-group-id bits on the file to prevent accidental or mischievous creation of set-user-id and set-group-id programs. is particularly useful when used in conjunction with the file locking primitives (see One of the owner or group id’s may be left unchanged by specifying it as -1.

RETURN VALUES

Zero is returned if the operation was successful; -1 is returned if an error occurs, with a more specific error code being placed in the global variable

ERRORS

will fail and the file will be unchanged if: A component of the path prefix is not a directory. A component of a pathname exceeded characters, or an entire path name exceeded characters. The named file does not exist. Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. The effective user ID is not the super-user. The named file resides on a read-only file system. points outside the process’s allocated address space. An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. will fail if: does not refer to a valid descriptor. refers to a socket, not a file. The effective user ID is not the super-user. The named file resides on a read-only file system. An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.

SEE ALSO

STANDARDS

The function is expected to conform to

HISTORY

The function call appeared in The and functions were changed to follow symbolic links in


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