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# chown

chown -- change file owner

## Description

`int chown`(string filename, mixed user);

Attempts to change the owner of the file filename to user user. Only the superuser may change the owner of a file.

Returns true on success; otherwise returns false.

> Note: On Windows, does nothing and returns true.

See also chown() and chmod().

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