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chmod


Description:

public int chmod (string filename, int mode)

The chmod() function is used to set the permissions of a file system object.

On Windows the file protection mechanism is not at all POSIX-like, and the underlying chmod() function in the C library just sets or clears the FAT-style READONLY attribute. It does not touch any ACL. Software that needs to manage file permissions on Windows exactly should use the Win32 API.

See your C library manual for more details about chmod().

Returns:

zero if the operation succeeded, -1 on error.

Namespace: GLib.FileUtils
Package: glib-2.0