Re: chown bug

From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 15:05:35 EST

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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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