Sometime on May 15, Bob Proulx assembled some asciibets to say:
> > The chown man and info pages do not document the facts that only root can
> > change the ownership of a file, and that the setuid bits on files are
>
> Actually, the GNU chown command does not know if this is the policy of
> the system or not. It calls the kernel chown command. If the OS
> allows it then it will change the ownership of the file. Different
In that case, it might be good to add these facts to the documentation -
GNU chown uses the kernel chown, so its actual implementation will be
system dependent. See chown(3) for more information.
That may make it a little clearer.
Thanks for the info though.
Philip
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