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From: John M Collins <jmc@xisl.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Fchown on unix domain sockets?
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:55:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410312255.00621.jmc@xisl.com> (raw)

Please CC any reply to jmc AT xisl.com as I'm not subscribed.

I wanted to change the ownership on a unix domain socket in a program (running 
as root) I was writing and I was wondering if "fchown" worked on the socket 
descriptor (after I'd run "bind" of course).

It doesn't, you have to use "chown" on the path name - however "fchown" 
silently does nothing, it doesn't report an error.

I don't mind it not working but I think it should report an error. This is on 
2.6.3 kernel.

I tried it on HP/UX 11 and it gave EINVAL (which the HP manual page doesn't 
document) and on Solaris 9 which likewise silently did nothing.

-- 
John Collins Xi Software Ltd www.xisl.com

             reply	other threads:[~2004-10-31 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-31 22:55 John M Collins [this message]
2004-11-01 14:20 ` Fchown on unix domain sockets? Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 14:41   ` John M Collins
2004-11-01 14:49     ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 15:43       ` John M Collins
2004-11-01 17:27         ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-01 22:27       ` David Wagner

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