CHOWN(II) 12/15/74 CHOWN(II)





CHOWN(II)                   12/15/74                    CHOWN(II)







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.
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