[Lazarus] fpchmod illegal character "&"

[David Touzeau]

Hum

so i can convert 775 or 666 chmod number privilege  to an octal
parameter in order to avoid this illegal character error
I'm dev in Unix (linux)



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De: Vincent Snijders <vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl>
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Sujet: Re: [Lazarus] fpchmod illegal character "&"
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:52:59 +0200


Bart schreef:
> Hi David,
> 
> Look at the function definition:
> 
> Function  FpChmod   (path : AnsiString; Mode : TMode): cInt; inline;
> 
> The second parameter must be of type TMode, so you cannot use a "&" in it.
> 
> What does  "&"755 do if you run chmode from terminal?
> (What is the meaning of the ampersand in front of the 755 in this case?)

& means an octal number.

&777 seems a valid octal number and is used in this fpChmod example:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/baseunix/fpchmod.html

Vincent

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