fchownat (GNU Gnulib)

Gnulib module: fchownat

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

This function is missing on some platforms: glibc 2.3.6, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 14. But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe. Also, the replacement may fail to change symlinks if lchown is unsupported, or fail altogether if chown is unsupported.
This function is declared in <sys/stat.h>, not in <unistd.h>, on some platforms: Android 4.3.
Some platforms fail to detect trailing slash on non-directories, as in fchown(dir,"link-to-file/",uid,gid,flag): Solaris 9.
Some platforms fail to update the change time when at least one argument was not −1, but no ownership changes resulted: OpenBSD 7.7.
Some platforms mistakenly dereference symlinks when using AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW: Linux kernel 2.6.17.
This function does not fail for an empty filename on some platforms: Linux with glibc < 2.11.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

This function sometimes fails with EACCES when the failure is due to lack of appropriate privileges (EPERM), not to search permission denied on the file name prefix (EACCES): Linux kernel 5.15 with glibc 2.35 and a CIFS v1 file system (see https://bugs.gnu.org/65599).