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CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS explained

Name

CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS - permissions for remotely created directories

Synopsis

#include <curl/curl.h>
 
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS,
                          long mode);

Description

Pass a long as a parameter, containing the value of the permissions that is set on newly created directories on the remote server. The default value is 0755, but any valid value can be used. The only protocols that can use this are sftp://, scp://, and file://.

Default

0755

Protocols

This functionality affects file, scp and sftp

Example

int main(void)
{
  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode ret;
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL,
                     "sftp://upload.example.com/newdir/file.zip");
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS, 1L);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NEW_DIRECTORY_PERMS, 0644L);
    ret = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  }
}

Availability

Added in curl 7.16.4

Return value

curl_easy_setopt returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors.