stat, chmod and RDONLY file (win32)?

[T. C. Mits]

Thanks thats the info.   I tried a quicky:   os.chmod( name, 0777) and it
works.    Funny I associated the four octal flags with Unix, not win98 or
NT.    Oh well, newbieness....

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at compaq.com> wrote in message
news:37B9D5F6.2AC782E1 at compaq.com...
> "T. C. Mits" wrote:
> >
> > mean that one must supply the c-run-time bit flags,
> > documented elsewhere (where?), as mentioned in the open() API blurb,
such as
> > O_RDONLY.
>
> No, O_RDONLY and friends are a completely different set
> of modes (confusing, I know!)
>
> The sort of mode you want here consists of 3 octal
> digits, for owner, group and other. Each digit
> contains read, write and execute permission bits
> in that order.
>
> So, to add write permission for the owner, for
> instance, "or" the existing permissions with
> octal 0200.
>
> There's also a fourth octal digit to the
> left which contains the setuid, setgid and
> sticky bits, but these aren't relevant for what
> you're doing here.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Greg