03-25-2015
Quote:
I see. So you are saying that the function is supposed to work that way.
Only the owner of the file or a superuser can change it.
So in my case it can't be done.
Yes.
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Is there a setting I can apply to the file to allow all users to access it?
Like a group setting. Or is it hopeless?
Access (read, write, execute) is not the same as
change file characteristics (access permissions, owner ID, group ID, and timestamps).
If a file has access permissions 666 (read and write by owner, group, and world), anybody can set the modification and status change timestamps of the file by writing to it and anybody can set the access timestamp of the file by reading it (but you can only set those timestamps to the current time; not some arbitrary time in the past, the present, or the future as you can with
utime()).
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File::HomeDir::Unix(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation File::HomeDir::Unix(3)
NAME
File::HomeDir::Unix - Find your home and other directories on legacy Unix
SYNOPSIS
use File::HomeDir;
# Find directories for the current user
$home = File::HomeDir->my_home; # /home/mylogin
$desktop = File::HomeDir->my_desktop; # All of these will...
$docs = File::HomeDir->my_documents; # ...default to home...
$music = File::HomeDir->my_music; # ...directory
$pics = File::HomeDir->my_pictures; #
$videos = File::HomeDir->my_videos; #
$data = File::HomeDir->my_data; #
DESCRIPTION
This module provides implementations for determining common user directories. In normal usage this module will always be used via
File::HomeDir.
SUPPORT
See the support section the main File::HomeDir module.
AUTHORS
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
SEE ALSO
File::HomeDir, File::HomeDir::Win32 (legacy)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2005 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.
Some parts copyright 2000 Sean M. Burke.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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