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                     20: .TH CHFALGS 2 "June 23, 1990"
                     21: .UC 7
                     22: .SH NAME
                     23: chflags, fchflags \- set file flags
                     24: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     25: .nf
                     26: .ft B
                     27: chflags(path, flags)
                     28: char *path;
                     29: long flags;
                     30: .LP
                     31: .ft B
                     32: fchflags(fd, flags)
                     33: int fd;
                     34: long flags;
                     35: .fi
                     36: .ft R
                     37: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     38: The file whose name
                     39: is given by \fIpath\fP
                     40: or referenced by the descriptor
                     41: .I fd
                     42: has its flags changed to
                     43: .IR flags .
                     44: .PP
                     45: Only the owner of a file (or the super-user) may change the flags.
                     46: The owner may only change the lower 16 bits of the flags;
                     47: the super-user may change all 32 bits of the flags.
                     48: .SH RETURN VALUE
                     49: Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
                     50: Otherwise, \-1 is returned and the global variable
                     51: .I errno
                     52: is set to indicate the error.
                     53: .SH ERRORS
                     54: .I Chflags
                     55: fails if one or more of the following are true:
                     56: .TP 15
                     57: [ENOTDIR]
                     58: A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
                     59: .TP 15
                     60: [EINVAL]
                     61: The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
                     62: .TP 15
                     63: [ENAMETOOLONG]
                     64: A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
                     65: or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
                     66: .TP 15
                     67: [ENOENT]
                     68: The named file does not exist.
                     69: .TP 15
                     70: [EACCES]
                     71: Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
                     72: .TP 15
                     73: [ELOOP]
                     74: Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
                     75: .TP 15
                     76: [EPERM]
                     77: The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and
                     78: the effective user ID is not the super-user.
                     79: .TP 15
                     80: [EROFS]
                     81: The named file resides on a read-only file system.
                     82: .TP 15
                     83: [EFAULT]
                     84: .I Path
                     85: points outside the process's allocated address space.
                     86: .TP 15
                     87: [EIO]
                     88: An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
                     89: .PP
                     90: .I Fchflags
                     91: will fail if:
                     92: .TP 15
                     93: [EBADF]
                     94: The descriptor is not valid.
                     95: .TP 15
                     96: [EINVAL]
                     97: .I Fd
                     98: refers to a socket, not to a file.
                     99: .TP 15
                    100: [EPERM]
                    101: The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and
                    102: the effective user ID is not the super-user.
                    103: .TP 15
                    104: [EROFS]
                    105: The file resides on a read-only file system.
                    106: .TP 15
                    107: [EIO]
                    108: An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
                    109: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                    110: chmod(2), open(2), chown(2), stat(2)

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