Re: chown bug

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:05:35 +0100 (MET)


From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@fefe.de>

If user !root says chown("/usr",-1,-1), he gets EPERM. Why?

Because the standard says:

The chown( ) function shall fail if:

[EPERM] The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file, or ..

Andries
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