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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/MULTI/chown, revision 1.1.1.1

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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-
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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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