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Re: Change Unix Permissions
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Re: Change Unix Permissions


  • Subject: Re: Change Unix Permissions
  • From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 16:50:36 +0100

On lundi, nov 4, 2002, at 16:33 Europe/Paris, Lorenzo Puleo wrote:

Hi,
I have to change the permissions to a file in my Cocoa application, but I
would avoid to use:
[manager changeFileAttributes:destAttribute atPath:destFile];


I would like to use the Carbon routines. All I have to do is:
1) First I read the permissions
err = FSGetCatalogInfo(&destRef, kFSCatInfoSettableInfo, &theInfo, nil, nil,
nil);

2) And then I want to change only the Owner permissions r-x to rwx using the
following:
err = FSSetCatalogInfo(&destRef, kFSCatInfoPermissions, &theInfo);
because in one only API, here I can set FinderFlags, Dates, etc...


So please, how should I use the variable "theInfo.permissions" either for
understanding the original permissions and for setting the new permissions?

==========================
From the Carbon archives:
==========================

#define kGroupReadMask 0x0040
>> #define kGroupWriteMask 0x0020
>> #define kGroupAccessMask 0x0010
>> #define kEveryoneReadMask 0x0004
>> #define kEveryoneWriteMask 0x0002
>> #define kEveryoneAccessMask 0x0001
>>
>> FSRef itemRef;
>> FSCatalogInfo catalogInfo;
>> FSPermissionInfo* permPtr;
>> OSErr status;
>>
>> status = ::FSGetCatalogInfo( &itemRef, kFSCatInfoPermissions,
>> &catalogInfo, NULL, NULL, NULL ); // get current info
>>
>> // Get the current setting and adjust it.
>> permPtr = (FSPermissionInfo*)&catalogInfo.permissions;
>> permPtr->mode |= ( kGroupReadMask | kGroupWriteMask |
>> kEveryoneReadMask | kEveryoneWriteMask );
>>
>> status = ::FSSetCatalogInfo( &itemRef, kFSCatInfoPermissions,

-----------------

Also, will this work on no-Mac FileSystems?

It might not work as you want it to even on Mac FileSystems as the FSSetCatalogInfo API is using the User Mask to set the file permissions.
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