CHOWN(II)                    12/15/74                   CHOWN(II)



NAME
     chown - change owner and group of a file

SYNOPSIS
     (chmod = 16.)
     sys chown; name; owner

     chown(name, owner)
     char *name;

DESCRIPTION
     The  file  whose name is given by the null-terminated string
     pointed to by name has its owner and group  changed  to  the
     low  and  high bytes of owner respectively.  Only the super-
     user may execute this call, because if users  were  able  to
     give  files  away, they could defeat the (nonexistent) file-
     space accounting procedures.

SEE ALSO
     chown(VIII), chgrp(VIII), passwd(V)

DIAGNOSTICS
     The error bit (c-bit) is set on illegal owner changes.  From
     C  a -1 returned value indicates error, 0 indicates success.

































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