Originální popis anglicky: 
fchown - change owner and group of a file
Návod, kniha: POSIX Programmer's Manual
#include <unistd.h>
 
 
int fchown(int 
 fildes, uid_t
  owner , gid_t
  group);
 
The 
fchown() function shall be equivalent to 
chown() except that
  the file whose owner and group are changed is specified by the file descriptor
  
fildes.
Upon successful completion, 
fchown() shall return 0. Otherwise, it shall
  return -1 and set 
errno to indicate the error.
The 
fchown() function shall fail if:
  - EBADF
- The fildes argument is not an open file
    descriptor.
  - EPERM
- The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file
      or the process does not have appropriate privilege and
      _POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED indicates that such privilege is required.
  - EROFS
- The file referred to by fildes resides on a
      read-only file system.
      
The 
fchown() function may fail if:
  - EINVAL
- The owner or group ID is not a value supported by the
      implementation. The fildes argument refers to a pipe or socket
       or an fattach()-ed STREAM  and the implementation
      disallows execution of fchown() on a pipe.
  - EIO
- A physical I/O error has occurred.
  - EINTR
- The fchown() function was interrupted by a signal
      which was caught.
      
The following sections are informative.
The following example shows how to change the owner of a file named
  
/home/cnd/mod1 to "jones" and the group to "cnd".
The numeric value for the user ID is obtained by extracting the user ID from the
  user database entry associated with "jones". Similarly, the numeric
  value for the group ID is obtained by extracting the group ID from the group
  database entry associated with "cnd". This example assumes the
  calling program has appropriate privileges.
 
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <grp.h>
 
struct passwd *pwd;
struct group  *grp;
int            fildes;
...
fildes = open("/home/cnd/mod1", O_RDWR);
pwd = getpwnam("jones");
grp = getgrnam("cnd");
fchown(fildes, pwd->pw_uid, grp->gr_gid);
 
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chown() , the Base Definitions volume of
  IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, 
<unistd.h>
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE
  Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable
  Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue
  6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
  Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between
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