1 /* Provide a stub lchown function for systems that lack it.
3 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 Free Software
6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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17 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
18 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
20 /* written by Jim Meyering */
28 /* Work just like chown, except when FILE is a symbolic link.
29 In that case, set errno to EOPNOTSUPP and return -1.
30 But if autoconf tests determined that chown modifies
31 symlinks, then just call chown. */
34 lchown (const char *file, uid_t uid, gid_t gid)
36 #if ! CHOWN_MODIFIES_SYMLINK
39 if (lstat (file, &stats) == 0 && S_ISLNK (stats.st_mode))
46 return chown (file, uid, gid);