From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 23:33:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (rpl_chown): Work even if the file is writeable but not readable.
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~821
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1ff6d6ea07aeaf30ba24cded76d426d233185d78;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(rpl_chown): Work even if the file is writeable but not readable.
---

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))
       {