FCHMOD(3P)

PROLOG
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NAME
fchmod — change mode of a file

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/stat.h>

int fchmod(int fildes, mode_t mode);

DESCRIPTION
The fchmod() function shall be equivalent to chmod() except that the file whose permissions are changed is specified by the file descriptor fildes.

If fildes references a shared memory object, the fchmod() function need only affect the S_IRUSR, S_IWUSR, S_IRGRP, S_IWGRP, S_IROTH, and S_IWOTH file permission bits.

If fildes references a typed memory object, the behavior of fchmod() is unspecified.

If fildes refers to a socket, the behavior of fchmod() is unspecified.

If fildes refers to a STREAM (which is fattach()-ed into the file system name space) the call returns successfully, doing nothing.

RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, fchmod() shall return 0. Otherwise, it shall return -1 and set errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS
The fchmod() function shall fail if:

EBADF
    The fildes argument is not an open file descriptor.

EPERM
    The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and the process does not have appropriate privileges.

EROFS
    The file referred to by fildes resides on a read-only file system.

The fchmod() function may fail if:

EINTR
    The fchmod() function was interrupted by a signal.

EINVAL
    The value of the mode argument is invalid.

EINVAL
    The fildes argument refers to a pipe and the implementation disallows execution of fchmod() on a pipe.

The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

  Changing the Current Permissions for a File

The following example shows how to change the permissions for a file named /home/cnd/mod1 so that the owner and group have read/write/execute permissions, but the world only has read/write permissions.

    #include <sys/stat.h>
    #include <fcntl.h>

    mode_t mode;
    int    fildes;
    ...
    fildes = open("/home/cnd/mod1", O_RDWR);
    fchmod(fildes, S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG | S_IROTH | S_IWOTH);

APPLICATION USAGE
None.

RATIONALE
None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.

SEE ALSO
chmod(), chown(), creat(), fcntl(), fstatat(), fstatvfs(), mknod(), open(), read(), write()

The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2017, <sys_stat.h>

COPYRIGHT
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 .

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