fchown(3p)

NAME

fchown - change owner and group of a file

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>
int fchown(int fildes, uid_t owner, gid_t group);

DESCRIPTION

The fchown() function shall be equivalent to chown() except that the file whose owner and group are changed is specified by the file descriptor fildes.

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, fchown() shall return 0. Otherwise, it shall return -1 and set errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS

The fchown() function shall fail if:

EBADF The fildes argument is not an open file descriptor.

EPERM The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file or
the process does not have appropriate privilege and _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED indicates that such privilege is required.
EROFS The file referred to by fildes resides on a read-only file sys
tem.
The fchown() function may fail if:
EINVAL The owner or group ID is not a value supported by the implemen
tation. The fildes argument refers to a pipe or socket or an fattach()-ed STREAM and the implementation disallows execution of fchown() on a pipe.
EIO A physical I/O error has occurred.
EINTR The fchown() function was interrupted by a signal which was
caught.
The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

Changing the Current Owner of a File
The following example shows how to change the owner of a file named /home/cnd/mod1 to "jones" and the group to "cnd".
The numeric value for the user ID is obtained by extracting the user ID from the user database entry associated with "jones". Similarly, the numeric value for the group ID is obtained by extracting the group ID from the group database entry associated with "cnd". This example assumes the calling program has appropriate privileges.

#include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <grp.h>
struct passwd *pwd;
struct group *grp;
int fildes;
...
fildes = open("/home/cnd/mod1", O_RDWR);
pwd = getpwnam("jones");
grp = getgrnam("cnd");
fchown(fildes, pwd->pw_uid, grp->gr_gid);

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

chown() , the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <unistd.h>

COPYRIGHT

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .
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