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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/MULTI/chown, revision 1.1

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        !             3: chown()                COHERENT System Call               chown()
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        !             8: Change ownership of a file
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        !            10: cchhoowwnn(_f_i_l_e, _u_i_d, _g_i_d)
        !            11: cchhaarr *_f_i_l_e ;
        !            12: sshhoorrtt _u_i_d, _g_i_d;
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        !            14: chown changes the owner of file to user id uid and group id gid.
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        !            16: To change  only the user  id without changing the  group id, stat
        !            17: should be used to determine the value of gid to pass to chown.
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        !            19: chown is restricted  to the superuser, because granting the ordi-
        !            20: nary user the ability to change the ownership of files might cir-
        !            21: cumvent file  space quotas or  accounting based upon  file owner-
        !            22: ship.
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        !            24: chown  returns -1  for errors,  such as  nonexistent file  or the
        !            25: caller not being the superuser.
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        !            27: ***** See Also *****
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        !            29: chmod(), COHERENT system calls, passwd, stat()
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