Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:38:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: fchmod() / fchown() ?
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:

> is it possible to change attributtes of open file under DOS?

There's no system call to do that (AFAIK), and since there's no way to
get the full path given the handle, I think you can't do that.

> If it is not, I can provide at least fchown(), which does
> nothing under DOS.

You should at least check for the obvious errors (invalid file handle,
for example).  It's probably a good idea to include an FSEXT hook.