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authorpjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-13 11:46:38 +0000
committerpjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-13 11:46:38 +0000
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Be more precise with EPERM description. When chown(2) is a no-op, it will
return 0.
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/chown.23
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/chown.2 b/lib/libc/sys/chown.2
index 411bffa..5518fad 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/chown.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/chown.2
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
.It Bq Er ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
.It Bq Er EPERM
-The effective user ID is not the super-user.
+The operation would change the ownership, but the effective user ID is not the
+super-user.
.It Bq Er EPERM
The named file has its immutable flag set, see the
.Xr chflags 2
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