summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/lib/libc/sys/chown.2
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-02-27 21:57:41 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-02-27 21:57:41 +0000
commitaaf2d58f0d5749cc06139b7e1db0b22881ba61bd (patch)
treebc799ab769e278dfdecc60b0bbf69c30a578d613 /lib/libc/sys/chown.2
parent584fd0812f68bd000624885be123bf263ed152ff (diff)
make function names the correct case
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/chown.2')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/chown.218
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/chown.2 b/lib/libc/sys/chown.2
index 3b194b6d33c..d21a1e32c67 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/chown.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/chown.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: chown.2,v 1.3 1997/01/26 05:10:33 downsj Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: chown.2,v 1.4 1999/02/27 21:56:10 deraadt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: chown.2,v 1.10 1995/10/12 15:40:47 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993, 1994
@@ -69,19 +69,19 @@ but the change
.Fa owner
capability is restricted to the super-user.
.Pp
-.Fn Chown
+.Fn chown
clears the set-user-id and set-group-id bits
on the file
to prevent accidental or mischievous creation of
set-user-id and set-group-id programs.
.Pp
-.Fn Lchown
+.Fn lchown
operates similarly to how
.Fn chown
operated on older systems, and does not follow symbolic links.
It allows the owner and group of a symbolic link to be set.
.Pp
-.Fn Fchown
+.Fn fchown
is particularly useful when used in conjunction
with the file locking primitives (see
.Xr flock 2 ) .
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Zero is returned if the operation was successful;
error code being placed in the global variable
.Va errno .
.Sh ERRORS
-.Fn Chown
+.Fn chown
or
.Fn lchown
will fail and the file or link will be unchanged if:
@@ -118,20 +118,20 @@ The effective user ID is not the super-user.
.It Bq Er EROFS
The named file resides on a read-only file system.
.It Bq Er EFAULT
-.Fa Path
+.Fa path
points outside the process's allocated address space.
.It Bq Er EIO
An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
.El
.Pp
-.Fn Fchown
+.Fn fchown
will fail if:
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EBADF
-.Fa Fd
+.Fa fd
does not refer to a valid descriptor.
.It Bq Er EINVAL
-.Fa Fd
+.Fa fd
refers to a socket, not a file.
.It Bq Er EPERM
The effective user ID is not the super-user.