CHOWN
Section: MINTLIB LIBRARY FUNCTIONS
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Updated: 3 March 1993
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NAME
chown - change owner and group of a file
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int chown(const char *path, int uid, int gid);
DESCRIPTION
path points to a path naming a file. The owner ID and group ID
of the file are set to the numeric values contained in uid and
gid respectively.
Only a process with effective uid 0 or whose effective uid
matches the user ownership of the file may make this call.
In the latter case, the new uid must match the old one, and
the calling process must also be a member of the group
specified by gid.
RETURN VALUES
0 on success
-1 on failure; errno is set to indicate the error
SEE ALSO
chmod(3),
Fchown(2)
NOTES
When MiNT is not active, this routine is bogus.
MS-DOS (TOS) file systems do not understand file ownership.
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