chmod
Changes the mode of the file. The process must have the correct privileges in order to do this successfully, or must have the effective user ID matching the owner of the file.
Function parameters
Parameters
Type definitions in this namespace
Types
- Permissions
- Cross-platform representation of permissions on a file.
- Reader
- Memoizes key information about a file handle such as:
Functions in this namespace
Functions
- close
- Upon success, the stream is in an uninitialized state.
- sync
- Blocks until all pending file contents and metadata modifications
- isTty
- Test whether the file refers to a terminal.
- getOrEnableAnsiEscapeSupport
- Returns whether or not ANSI escape codes will be treated as such,
- supportsAnsiEscapeCodes
- Test whether ANSI escape codes will be treated as such without
- setEndPos
- Shrinks or expands the file.
- seekBy
- Repositions read/write file offset relative to the current offset.
- seekFromEnd
- Repositions read/write file offset relative to the end.
- seekTo
- Repositions read/write file offset relative to the beginning.
- getPos
- TODO: integrate with async I/O
- getEndPos
- TODO: integrate with async I/O
- mode
- TODO: integrate with async I/O
- stat
- Returns `Stat` containing basic information about the `File`.
- chmod
- Changes the mode of the file.
- chown
- Changes the owner and group of the file.
- setPermissions
- Sets permissions according to the provided `Permissions` struct.
- updateTimes
- The underlying file system may have a different granularity than nanoseconds,
- readToEndAlloc
- Deprecated in favor of `Reader`.
- readToEndAllocOptions
- Deprecated in favor of `Reader`.
- readAll
- Deprecated in favor of `Reader`.
- pread
- On Windows, this function currently does alter the file pointer.
- preadAll
- Deprecated in favor of `Reader`.
- readv
- See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7699
- readvAll
- Deprecated in favor of `Reader`.
- preadv
- See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7699
- preadvAll
- Deprecated in favor of `Reader`.
- writeAll
- Deprecated in favor of `Writer`.
- pwrite
- On Windows, this function currently does alter the file pointer.
- pwriteAll
- Deprecated in favor of `Writer`.
- writev
- See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7699
- writevAll
- Deprecated in favor of `Writer`.
- pwritev
- See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7699
- pwritevAll
- Deprecated in favor of `Writer`.
- copyRange
- Deprecated in favor of `Writer`.
- copyRangeAll
- Deprecated in favor of `Writer`.
- deprecatedReader
- Deprecated in favor of `Reader`.
- deprecatedWriter
- Deprecated in favor of `Writer`.
- reader
- Defaults to positional reading; falls back to streaming.
- readerStreaming
- Positional is more threadsafe, since the global seek position is not
- writer
- Defaults to positional reading; falls back to streaming.
- writerStreaming
- Positional is more threadsafe, since the global seek position is not
- lock
- Blocks when an incompatible lock is held by another process.
- unlock
- Assumes the file is locked.
- tryLock
- Attempts to obtain a lock, returning `true` if the lock is
- downgradeLock
- Assumes the file is already locked in exclusive mode.
Error sets in this namespace
Error Sets
= posix.fd_t
Values
Source
Implementation
pub fn chmod(self: File, new_mode: Mode) ChmodError!void {
try posix.fchmod(self.handle, new_mode);
}