A couple of points:
1) chmod and the sysopen* call above set the file mode not the permission
2) A file mode of 0666 is generally bad as it is generally allows more access to the file than is needed (do you really want everyone to be able to read/change/delete your file?)
3) If you need to modify owner or the group membership, use chown

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Updated: Ok, you can't actually delete the file unless you have write access to the directory whihch holds the file. You can, however, blank out the file. For example: 

> my.file

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will reduce the file to zero bytes without actually having write access to the directory. The file isn't deleted but it certainly isn't very useful now.

* if your umask is sane (ie 022) then the sysopen (FILEHANDLE, ">>$filepath",O_CREAT, 0666) will not be inherently insecure.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Setting permissions as text file is created by coec
in thread Setting permissions as text file is created by Hissingsid

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