The man page says:

       If the owner or group is specified as -1, then that ID is not
       changed.

If user !root says chown("/usr",-1,-1), he gets EPERM.  Why?
He explicitly told the kernel that he does not actually want to change
anything.  Why would the kernel say EPERM?

Felix
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