Function: tar-chmod-entry

tar-chmod-entry is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in tar-mode.el.gz.

Signature

(tar-chmod-entry NEW-MODE)

Documentation

Change the protection bits associated with this entry in the tar file.

This does not modify the disk image; you must save the tar file itself for this to be permanent.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/tar-mode.el.gz
(defun tar-chmod-entry (new-mode)
  "Change the protection bits associated with this entry in the tar file.
This does not modify the disk image; you must save the tar file itself
for this to be permanent."
  (interactive (list (tar-parse-octal-integer-safe
		       (read-string "New protection (octal): "))))
  (setf (tar-header-mode (tar-current-descriptor)) new-mode)
  (tar-alter-one-field tar-mode-offset
    (concat (substring (format "%6o" new-mode) 0 6) "\000 ")))