Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 19:13:28 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua> Cc: Keith Anderson <keith@apcs.com.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C and permissions ? Message-ID: <19990407191328.T2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <370B2777.7E213964@prime.net.ua>; from Andy V. Oleynik on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 12:38:00PM %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990407153230.18821A-100000@localhost> <19990407151537.I2142@lemis.com> <370B2777.7E213964@prime.net.ua>
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On Wednesday, 7 April 1999 at 12:38:00 +0300, Andy V. Oleynik wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 7 April 1999 at 15:36:54 +1000, Keith Anderson wrote: >>> >>> I wrote some C programs that make files but need to set the permissions >>> inside the program, so the created files have the correct rw permission. >>> >>> Is there an include to handle file permissions. >> >> I think you mean a system call. Yes, there's a system call "chmod". >> Try "man 2 chmod". > > umask.2 may be very usefull IMHO. Well, yes, but you can normally set your umask from the shell, and it wasn't really the original question. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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