The man page says:
If the owner or group is specified as -1, then that ID is not
changed.
If user !root says chown("/usr",-1,-1), he gets EPERM. Why?
He explicitly told the kernel that he does not actually want to change
anything. Why would the kernel say EPERM?
Felix
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