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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:05:35 +0100 (MET)
From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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To: leitner@fefe.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: chown bug
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    From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@fefe.de>

    If user !root says chown("/usr",-1,-1), he gets EPERM.  Why?

Because the standard says:

  The chown( ) function shall fail if:

  [EPERM]  The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file, or ..

Andries
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