How to change/show permissions in C

Question

Hi! I am new to C programming and I'd like to implement chmod command on files of a dir and subdir. How can I change/show permissions with a C code? Could someone help with a example? I would appreciate if anyone can provide me a code.

Answer 1

with the GNU C library you should be able to do it directly with

int chmod (const char *filename, mode_t mode)
int chown (const char *filename, uid_t owner, gid_t group)

check it out here.. all these functions are in sys/stat.h

Answer 2

There's a chmod function. From man 3p chmod:

SYNOPSIS
   #include <sys/stat.h>

   int chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode);

...

If you want to read the permissions, you'd use stat. From man 3p stat:

SYNOPSIS
   #include <sys/stat.h>

   int stat(const char *restrict path, struct stat *restrict buf);

...

If you want to do it recursively like you mentioned, you'll have to do the looping over results of readdir yourself.