From: Felix von Leitner <leitner@fefe.de>
If user !root says chown("/usr",-1,-1), he gets EPERM. Why?
Because the standard says:
The chown( ) function shall fail if:
[EPERM] The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file, or ..
Andries
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