    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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