int chmod(const char * path , mode_t mode ); int fchmod(int fildes , mode_t mode );
DESCRIPTION
The mode of the file given by
path or referenced by
fildes is changed.
Modes are specified by
or'ing the following:
S_ISUID
04000 set user ID on execution
S_ISGID
02000 set group ID on execution
S_ISVTX
01000 sticky bit
S_IRUSR (S_IREAD)
00400 read by owner
S_IWUSR (S_IWRITE)
00200 write by owner
S_IXUSR (S_IEXEC)
00100 execute/search by owner
S_IRGRP
00040 read by group
S_IWGRP
00020 write by group
S_IXGRP
00010 execute/search by group
S_IROTH
00004 read by others
S_IWOTH
00002 write by others
S_IXOTH
00001 execute/search by others
The effective UID of the process must be zero or must match the owner of
the file.
If the effective UID of the process is not zero and the group of the file
does not match the effective group ID of the process or one of its
supplementary group IDs, the S_ISGID bit will be turned off,
but this will not cause an error to be returned.
Depending on the file system, set user ID and set group ID execution bits
may be turned off if a file is written. On some file systems, only the
super-user can set the sticky bit, which may have a special meaning.
For the sticky bit, and for set user ID and set group ID bits on
directories, see
stat(2) .
On NFS file systems, restricting the permissions will immediately influence
already open files, because the access control is done on the server, but
open files are maintained by the client. Widening the permissions may be
delayed for other clients if attribute caching is enabled on them.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and
errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
Depending on the file system, other errors can be returned. The more
general errors for
chmod are listed below:
EPERM
The effective UID does not match the owner of the file, and is not zero.
EROFS
The named file resides on a read-only file system.
EFAULT
path points outside your accessible address space.
ENAMETOOLONG
path is too long.
ENOENT
The file does not exist.
ENOMEM
Insufficient kernel memory was available.
ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
EACCES
Search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix.
ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving
path .
EIO
An I/O error occurred.
The general errors for
fchmod are listed below:
EBADF
The file descriptor
fildes is not valid.
EROFS
See above.
EPERM
See above.
EIO
See above.
CONFORMING TO
The
chmod call conforms to SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, 4.4BSD.
SVr4 documents EINTR, ENOLINK and EMULTIHOP returns, but no
ENOMEM. POSIX.1 does not document EFAULT, ENOMEM, ELOOP or EIO error
conditions, or the macros S_IREAD, S_IWRITE and S_IEXEC.
The
fchmod call conforms to 4.4BSD and SVr4.
SVr4 documents additional EINTR and ENOLINK error conditions.
POSIX requires the
fchmod function if at least one of
_POSIX_MAPPED_FILES and
_POSIX_SHARED_MEMORY_OBJECTS is defined, and documents additional ENOSYS and EINVAL error
conditions, but does not document EIO.
