1 /* Provide a stub lchown function for systems that lack it.
2 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
18 /* written by Jim Meyering */
22 #include <sys/types.h>
27 #include "stat-macros.h"
29 /* Declare chown to avoid a warning. Don't include unistd.h,
30 because it may have a conflicting prototype for lchown. */
33 /* Work just like chown, except when FILE is a symbolic link.
34 In that case, set errno to EOPNOTSUPP and return -1.
35 But if autoconf tests determined that chown modifies
36 symlinks, then just call chown. */
39 lchown (const char *file, uid_t uid, gid_t gid)
41 #if ! CHOWN_MODIFIES_SYMLINK
44 if (lstat (file, &stats) == 0 && S_ISLNK (stats.st_mode))
51 return chown (file, uid, gid);