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# FpChown

Change owner of file

## Declaration

Source position: line 0

`function FpChown(`
`path: PChar;`
`owner: TUid;`
`group: TGid`
`):cint; function FpChown(`
`path: AnsiString;`
`owner: TUid;`
`group: TGid`
`):cint;`

## Description

fpChown sets the User ID and Group ID of the file in Path to Owner,Group.

The function returns zero if the call was succesfull, a nonzero return value indicates an error.

## Errors

The following error codes are returned:

sys_eperm
  The effective UID doesn't match the ownership of the file, and is not zero. Owner or group were not specified correctly.
sys_eaccess
  One of the directories in Path has no search (=execute) permission.
sys_enoent
  A directory entry in Path does not exist or is a symbolic link pointing to a non-existent directory.
sys_enomem
  Insufficient kernel memory.
sys_erofs
  The file is on a read-only filesystem.
sys_eloop
  Path has a reference to a circular symbolic link, i.e. a symbolic link, whose expansion points to itself.

## See also

fpChmod |  | Change file permission bits
fpAccess |  | Check file access

## Example

    Program Example24;

    { Program to demonstrate the Chown function. }

    Uses BaseUnix;

    Var UID : TUid;
        GID : TGid;
        F : Text;

    begin

      Writeln ('This will only work if you are root.');
      Write ('Enter a UID : ');readln(UID);
      Write ('Enter a GID : ');readln(GID);
      Assign (f,'test.txt');
      Rewrite (f);
      Writeln (f,'The owner of this file should become : ');
      Writeln (f,'UID : ',UID);
      Writeln (f,'GID : ',GID);
      Close (F);
      if fpChown ('test.txt',UID,GID)<>0 then
        if fpgeterrno=ESysEPERM then
          Writeln ('You are not root !')
        else
          Writeln ('Chmod failed with exit code : ',fpgeterrno)
      else
        Writeln ('Changed owner successfully !');
    end.

Documentation generated on: Feb 26 2014