wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpsockets.php:360Gets the file owner.
$filestringstring|int<1, public function owner( $file ) { $dir = $this->dirlist( $file ); return $dir[ $file ]['owner'] ?? ''; }Introduced in 2.5.0. One change between 6.7.7 and 7.1.0.
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