Re: umask() and chmod()

Mike, et al -- Responding to your second one first... ..and then Ford, Mike [LSS] said... % % On 15 April 2004 16:26, David T-G wrote: % % > When I move_uploaded_file() a file into place, I want to give it the .. % > but chmod() needs a permissions setting rather than a umask. % > % > The challenge is in representing this as octal. With some .. % % I've just re-read this properly, and realised you want to feed the end value to chmod() -- so all the guff about octal representations is a complete red herring. What you want to feed to the 2nd parameter of chmod() is just: % % 0777 ^ umask() Ah! Cool! A bitwise NOT operator! Perfect :-) % % Within the computer, the value is just an integer, and that's what umask() provides and what chmod() expects for its 2nd argument -- so no conversions required. Even 0777 is an integer -- it's just a different way of representing 511 which is more understandable to us poor humans in that context. Right. % % Your original offering was, in fact, barking up the wrong tree -- what it was printing out, although it looked right, was the *decimal* value 664, which in octal would be 01230 and really not what you want. Right; I wanted to get it as a string and then turn the string into octal. % % I guess what this boils down to is that integers are just integers when you manipulate them in your script -- octal, decimal, hex and any other representations are just convenient notations for making them more human readable. Yep :-) % % Cheers! % % Mike Thanks again & HAND :-D -- David T-G davidtg@justpickone.org http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!