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Re: need fchmod() - help please!



Torsten Scherer <itschere@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:

|>> No, you'd need a name for the file, which isn't even guaranteed to
|>> exist, and close to impossible to guess anyway. This must be
|>> implemented by the kernel.

|>  Yeah, but would that really be very difficult? I doubt so because the
|> kernel should know to which file a handle belongs... :)

The kernel, yes, but Benjamin talked about emulating it in the
library, which is impossible. We could add an Fcntl cmd FCHMOD,
though.

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