Possible bug in setting Windows file permissions? (os.chmod() not working properly?)

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Mon Jun 16 20:27:55 EDT 2003


Gus Tabares wrote:
> 
> OK I lied. It's 666:)

In any case, aren't these supposed to be meaningful only as octal
values?  So you'd need 0666?  I'm not actually going by the docs
here, just memory.  777 and 666 would be extremely weird parameters
to pass in otherwise (i.e. as decimal).

-Peter




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