Creating a directory with default permissions

Creating a directory with default permissions

[Martin Jambon]

Hello,

Is there a way to write portable OCaml code which creates a directory
with the default permissions as defined by umask?

According to the documentation, Unix.umask is not available under Win32,
yet some functions ask for some file permissions. I don't know much about
Windows, but would there be a problem with having a Win32 Unix.umask
function which initially returns 0?


Thanks,


Martin

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Re: [Caml-list] Creating a directory with default permissions

[Gerd Stolpmann]

Am Freitag, den 20.10.2006, 11:43 -0700 schrieb Martin Jambon:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to write portable OCaml code which creates a directory
> with the default permissions as defined by umask?

I don't see your problem. Unix.mkdir filename 0o777 does exactly what
you want.

Gerd
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Re: [Caml-list] Creating a directory with default permissions

[Martin Jambon]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:

> Am Freitag, den 20.10.2006, 11:43 -0700 schrieb Martin Jambon:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there a way to write portable OCaml code which creates a directory
> > with the default permissions as defined by umask?
>
> I don't see your problem. Unix.mkdir filename 0o777 does exactly what
> you want.

Oh yes, Thank you!

I got misled by the documentation which says:

val mkdir : string -> file_perm -> unit
       Create a directory with the given permissions.


Martin

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