changing file permission of a file

[Lord CyKill]

I want to display and then change file permission of a file whose name is available to me but i dont know that whether i have to use chmod or not!
Ne help?

[Jaguar]

>> I want to display
$ ls -l filename

>> i have to use chmod or not
Yes

Consult `man -a chmod' or links here (http://www.rt.com/man/chmod.1.html).
Same thing. :) But you must have permission to do that.

[Lord CyKill]

But i want to do that all in a c program and using gcc!

[Hammer]

Originally posted by Lord CyKill
But i want to do that all in a c program and using gcc!
Code version:
http://www.rt.com/man/chmod.2.html
http://www.rt.com/man/stat.2.html

[Jaguar]

`man 2 chmod' probably help you, isn't it?

[lithium]

a lot of UNIX commands are also functions in C.