keough@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (08/19/87)
would anyone have source code for changing file protections from within an executing program? we're aware of access to these through QIOs and the information in volume 10A on I/O programming, but perhaps someone has already written a simple interface for getting at file protections. the reason we'd like to have this (for the curious, anyway): a privileged image creates certain command procedures and then submits them. because the image creates the command procedure, it is owned by the system. because it is created in the user's process, the command procedure inherits the default file protections of the user. because the command procedure is not created on the user's directory, trying to spawn it fails because the user usually has no privilege to read it (unless his default protection is world:r). spawning a "set protection" DCL command from the image will fail because the user does not own the file. thanks for any help ... Jerry Keough Tech Staff The MITRE Corporation keough@mitre-bedford.arpa