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instance method

FileTest#owned?

File.owned?(file_name) → true or false

Returns true if the named file exists and the effective used id of the calling process is the owner of the file.

file_name can be an IO object.

See also #identical? #pipe? #grpowned? #readable? also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.1 · 3.0