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| author | keramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-07-15 20:59:12 +0000 |
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| committer | keramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-07-15 20:59:12 +0000 |
| commit | 5bd8884c66002f4da091ba3fdf9309e79aae1d86 (patch) | |
| tree | 0740bbdd50b4e24e3b8d60b613944f1de59b7db7 /lib/libc/sys/chown.2 | |
| parent | 5777e081fa3c49e12058a541a71c4950aa3e5d21 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-5bd8884c66002f4da091ba3fdf9309e79aae1d86.zip FreeBSD-src-5bd8884c66002f4da091ba3fdf9309e79aae1d86.tar.gz | |
The .Fn function.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/chown.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/chown.2 | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/chown.2 b/lib/libc/sys/chown.2 index dc1d067..7ea3449 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/chown.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/chown.2 @@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ but the change .Fa owner capability is restricted to the super-user. .Pp -.Fn Chown +The +.Fn chown +function clears the set-user-id and set-group-id bits on the file to prevent accidental or mischievous creation of @@ -78,13 +80,16 @@ by the super-user. follows symbolic links to operate on the target of the link rather than the link itself. .Pp -.Fn Fchown +The +.Fn fchown +function is particularly useful when used in conjunction with the file locking primitives (see .Xr flock 2 ) . .Pp -.Fn Lchown -is similar to +The +.Fn lchown +function is similar to .Fn chown but does not follow symbolic links. .Pp @@ -93,7 +98,8 @@ may be left unchanged by specifying it as -1. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Rv -std .Sh ERRORS -.Fn Chown +The +.Fn chown and .Fn lchown will fail and the file will be unchanged if: @@ -120,8 +126,9 @@ points outside the process's allocated address space. An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. .El .Pp -.Fn Fchown -will fail if: +The +.Fn fchown +function will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBADF .Fa fd |
