[Mono-list] Create a file with execute permission?

Christopher David Howie me at chrishowie.com
Thu Sep 23 13:31:06 EDT 2010


On 09/23/2010 06:36 AM, kevink wrote:
> I create a .sh file and try to execute it with Process.Start() in my app.
> This is failing as the file is created without the "Execute" permission. Is
> there a way to specify this in C# on mono?

Since this is a Unix-ism, I doubt there will be an API in the
standardized framework for this.  But you can use the Mono.Unix library,
specifically the Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall.chmod() method to accomplish this.

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