From 17c3e95e58ee80cd93037161057d7e29e6e2f8f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 04:49:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (rpl_chown): Work even if the file is writeable but not readable. --- lib/chown.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/chown.c b/lib/chown.c index d761c73399..2b6b29d461 100644 --- a/lib/chown.c +++ b/lib/chown.c @@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ rpl_chown (const char *file, uid_t uid, gid_t gid) /* Handle the case in which the system-supplied chown function does *not* follow symlinks. Instead, it changes permissions on the symlink itself. To work around that, we open the - file (but this can fail due to lack of read permission) and + file (but this can fail due to lack of read or write permission) and use fchown on the resulting descriptor. */ int fd = open (file, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK | O_NOCTTY); - if (fd == -1) + if (fd < 0 + && (fd = open (file, O_WRONLY | O_NONBLOCK | O_NOCTTY)) < 0) return -1; if (fchown (fd, uid, gid)) { -- 2.30.2