FCHOWNAT(3P)

💖 FCHOWNAT(3P) — POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, this one's a lil page from the POSIX Programmer's Manual and it's short but she's important. 🎀

✨ PROLOG ✨

so first things first, this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. that's the whole vibe of it.

⚠️ real talk though: the Linux implementation of this interface may differ from what's written here, so if you're on Linux you gotta go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the details of how Linux actually behaves. OR, plot twist, the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. 😭 no cap, check before you ship it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

fchownat — change owner and group of a file, but relative to a directory file descriptor ✨ like she's doing it from a specific home base instead of just wherever you happen to be standing, iykyk.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

the way that you summon her:

#include <unistd.h>

int fchownat(int fd, const char *path, uid_t owner, gid_t group,
    int flag);

periodt. that's the whole signature, don't lose a single character of it. 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so this page doesn't even do the describing itself, she's a little delegating queen:

Refer to chown().

that's it. that's the description. go read chown(), she has the lore. 🫶

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

okay this part is the serious legal bit and I am NOT paraphrasing it, bestie, because lawyers do not play:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole page, babe. this one came to you courtesy of IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and it's page FCHOWNAT(3P) in the POSIX Programmer's Manual. slay, go forth, and remember to chown() responsibly. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶