Set owner of the new created file in C - c

Question

I have a program write.c, which creates a new file. I compiled that through root user and set the sticky bit for setuid using chmod u+s write.
Now, if a user2 executes this program. A new file is created with the root as owner, why ? The owner of the file should be user2.
For that, I changed the uid using setuid() and seteuid() to user2. And then created the file. But this also creates the file with root as owner. I want to create the file as user2 as owner.

Answer 1

Post an mcve. What you describe works just fine on my system. This:
#!/bin/sh -e
cat > main.c <<EOF
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
int fd;
uid_t ruid,euid,suid;
struct stat sb;
getresuid(&ruid,&euid,&suid);
printf("ruid=%ld euid=%ld suid=%ld\n", (long)ruid,(long)euid,(long)suid);
if(0>(fd = open(argv[1], O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0660))){
perror(0);
exit(1);
}
fstat(fd,&sb);
printf("owner=%ld\n", (long)sb.st_uid);
close(fd);
seteuid(ruid);
getresuid(&ruid,&euid,&suid);
printf("ruid=%ld euid=%ld suid=%ld\n", (long)ruid,(long)euid,(long)suid);
if(0>(fd = open(argv[2], O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0660))){
perror(0);
exit(1);
}
fstat(fd,&sb);
printf("owner=%ld\n", (long)sb.st_uid);
close(fd);
}
EOF
gcc main.c
sudo chown root a.out
sudo chmod u+s a.out
rm -f roots mine
./a.out roots mine
gets me:
ruid=1008 euid=0 suid=0
owner=0
ruid=1008 euid=1008 suid=0
owner=1008
i.e., the seteuid call succesfully resets my uid and the second file
is no longer owner by root.