posix man page for fchmod

FCHMOD(3P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual							FCHMOD(3P)

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NAME
       fchmod -- change mode of a file

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/stat.h>

       int fchmod(int fildes, mode_t mode);

DESCRIPTION
       The fchmod() function shall be equivalent to chmod() except that the file whose permissions are changed is specified by the file descriptor
       fildes.

       If  fildes  references  a shared memory object, the fchmod() function need only affect the S_IRUSR, S_IWUSR, S_IRGRP, S_IWGRP, S_IROTH, and
       S_IWOTH file permission bits.

       If fildes references a typed memory object, the behavior of fchmod() is unspecified.

       If fildes refers to a socket, the behavior of fchmod() is unspecified.

       If fildes refers to a STREAM (which is fattach()-ed into the file system name space) the call returns successfully, doing nothing.

RETURN VALUE
       Upon successful completion, fchmod() shall return 0. Otherwise, it shall return -1 and set errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS
       The fchmod() function shall fail if:

       EBADF  The fildes argument is not an open file descriptor.

       EPERM  The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and the process does not have appropriate privileges.

       EROFS  The file referred to by fildes resides on a read-only file system.

       The fchmod() function may fail if:

       EINTR  The fchmod() function was interrupted by a signal.

       EINVAL The value of the mode argument is invalid.

       EINVAL The fildes argument refers to a pipe and the implementation disallows execution of fchmod() on a pipe.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES
   Changing the Current Permissions for a File
       The following example shows how to change the permissions for a file named /home/cnd/mod1 so that the owner and group have  read/write/exe-
       cute permissions, but the world only has read/write permissions.

	   #include <sys/stat.h>
	   #include <fcntl.h>

	   mode_t mode;
	   int	  fildes;
	   ...
	   fildes = open("/home/cnd/mod1", O_RDWR);
	   fchmod(fildes, S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG | S_IROTH | S_IWOTH);

APPLICATION USAGE
       None.

RATIONALE
       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
       None.

SEE ALSO
       chmod(), chown(), creat(), fcntl(), fstatat(), fstatvfs(), mknod(), open(), read(), write()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, <sys_stat.h>

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C)  2013  by	the  Institute	of
       Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
       event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Stan-
       dard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .

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/The Open Group						       2013								FCHMOD(3P)