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URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao3.4/chmod.tm.html
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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 chmod Context: slangrtl

Synopsis

Change the mode of a file

Syntax

Integer_Type chmod (String_Type file, Integer_Type mode)

Description

The chmod function changes the permissions of file to those specified by mode. It returns 0 upon success, or -1 upon failure setting errno accordingly.

See the system specific documentation for the C library function chmod for a discussion of the mode parameter.

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